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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flagging
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flagging economy (=starting to become weaker)
▪ The government must take action to boost the flagging economy.
low/flagging (=used when saying that someone is sad)
▪ She was tired and her spirits were low.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
economy
▪ To sweeten the pill, the government will try to boost the flagging economy in various ways.
fortune
▪ The railway revived the flagging fortunes of Brighton.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the nation's flagging economy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was now feeling pleasantly intoxicated from the effects of a steady supply of alcohol, which had lifted his flagging spirits.
▪ Landowners are turning pasture into racetracks in an effort to boost flagging incomes.
▪ The onset of war and the urban destruction that followed breathed new spirit into a flagging crusade.
▪ The railway revived the flagging fortunes of Brighton.
▪ Uncertainties of planning, finance and building, along with flagging enthusiasm, have often proved too much for local initiatives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagging

Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flagged (fl[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flagging (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Icel. flaka to droop, hang loosely. Cf. Flacker, Flag an ensign.]

  1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

    As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast.
    --T. Moore.

  2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.

    The pleasures of the town begin to flag.
    --Swift.

    Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.

Flagging

Flagging \Flag"ging\, n. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

Flagging

Flagging \Flag"ging\, a. Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv.

Wiktionary
flagging

n. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively. vb. (present participle of flag English)

WordNet
flagging

adj. weak from exhaustion [syn: drooping]

flag
  1. n. emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

  2. plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: iris, fleur-de-lis, sword lily]

  3. a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device [syn: signal flag]

  4. a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. [syn: masthead]

  5. flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green [syn: pin]

  6. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones [syn: flagstone]

  7. a conspicuously marked or shaped tail

  8. [also: flagging, flagged]

flag
  1. v. communicate or signal with a flag

  2. provide with a flag; "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"

  3. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: sag, droop, swag]

  4. decorate with flags; "the building was flagged for the holiday"

  5. become less intense [syn: ease up, ease off, slacken off]

  6. [also: flagging, flagged]

flagging

See flag

Wikipedia
Flagging

Flagging may refer to:

  • Flagging (tape), a colored non-adhesive tape used in marking objects
  • Flagging (shipping) of a merchant vessel under the laws of a flag state
  • The activities of a flagger (disambiguation)
  • Handkerchief code, a use of color-coded bandannas in the gay and BDSM communities
  • Flagging (botany), a growth pattern that reduces or eliminates growth on one side of a tree or other plant
  • Flagging (climbing), a rock climbing technique
Flagging (tape)

Flagging is a colored non-adhesive tape used in marking objects. It is commonly made of PVC or vinyl, and wood fibre cellulose-based biodegradable flagging also exists.

Usage examples of "flagging".

So many of her clients brought flaccid organs and flagging desire and expected her to restore both.

The four men-at-arms dropped to the stone flagging and Ibn Jad and all his followers raced forward and stood within the ballium of the castle of King Bohun.

Such as were unengaged formed a circle round the wrestlers, and by their shouts and applause animated by turns the flagging courage of either.

Well-dressed middle-agers, flagging cabs, off to expensive dinners and the theater.

Valgard, gaunter and grimmer and curter of speech as the months wore on, sought to raise flagging spirits.

He had studied ASL with enthusiasm and had learned dozens of signs, but after a month with no progress from Jennie his interest was flagging.

Nor was it until that precise instant that he fully apprehended where he stood, feeling with redoubled intensity an awareness of Mystery, the disorientation and flagging spirits that derived from a propinquity with the country of death, which lay everywhere, attached to the skin of life like a dark subdermal layer and, in places such as this, showed in patches through the flimsy cover of the living world.

After flagging down one of the new autocabs, we were heading back toward Bellevue.

Everyone hopes the new routes will attract thousands of loyal riders, reduce traffic congestion downtown and revive the flagging Omni and Bayside shopping areas.

They were all driven along without any attempt at order, the havildars using their whips unsparingly upon them whenever they showed signs of flagging.

They continued, Damia reviving Amr's flagging passions until they were both afloat on a wave of emotion, drained, recharged, sizzling electric ecstasy pounded over them, through them, around them wave after wave.

And her only assignment over the past two days had been the boring task of flagging personnel with below-average performance appraisals.

Unless you've been living in a country too poor to furnish the supplies, the odds are that two of every five of your acquaintances are dicties - perhaps on some socially acceptable drug like alcohol, but quite likely on a trank that by way of side-effect depresses orgasmic capacity and compels the user to resort to orgies in order to stimulate flagging potency, or on a product like Skulbustium which offers the tempting bait of a totally, untrespassably private experience and entrains senile dementia rather more certainly than tobacco entrains cancer of the lung.

Having what passed as breakfast in the low, peeling public room of the tavern downstairs, Anne and John's soaring mood seemed to perk up Willy's own flagging spirit, so that he felt oddly pleased with himself as he made arrangements for a chaise and horse to take them the remaining two or three miles to Abbotsford, where Walter Scott was undoubtedly making preparations this very minute to give them his typical rousing welcome.

And the pope, already loudly accused of flagging Catholic zeal on the battlefronts of Europe, could not allow a new affront to go unpunished.