undeveloped
get behind
hang back
trail
drag
drop behind
drop back
underfoot
laggard
slow lane
slowth
lag
drag ass
laggingly
hoggishness
laggardly
countercyclical
retarding
lazy
regredient
impediment
die hard
lagger
pinch
Hollywooding
presocial
sluggishness
underwater
crisis
fall up
receding
first olive out of the bottle
above water
static
priggery
short-sightedness
downturn
wiggishness
downswing
low-class
bog
laggy
gluggy
nonadvancement
Brazilianisation
middle-class
foreshoot
out-of-dateness
dawdler
trailer
drone
slow
poke
priggishness
retarded
hot on someone's heels
parvenue
downtrend
priggishly
nouveau-riche
fail
upstart
middle income trap
the shoe is on the other foot
allargando
parvenu
set back
laze
lag behind
nonprogress
progresslessness
antiprogress
passivity
lentor
antiprogressive
antiprogressivist
sluggishly
waywardness
gig work
stymie
turning point
hinder
embarrass
stale
acyclical
lagging
doggishness
make heavy weather
blockade
stymy
obstruct
block
shortfalling

English words for 'lagging behind others, especially in economic or social matters'

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