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Meaning of "footdragger" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOTDRAGGER

footdragger  [ˈfʊtˌdræɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOTDRAGGER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Footdragger is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOOTDRAGGER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of footdragger in the English dictionary

The definition of footdragger in the dictionary is a person who is slow to take action.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOTDRAGGER


bagger
ˈbæɡə
bragger
ˈbræɡə
carpetbagger
ˈkɑːpɪtˌbæɡə
cragger
ˈkræɡə
dagger
ˈdæɡə
defragger
diːˈfræɡə
dragger
ˈdræɡə
flagger
ˈflæɡə
gagger
ˈɡæɡə
Jagger
ˈdʒæɡə
lagger
ˈlæɡə
nagger
ˈnæɡə
ragga
ˈræɡə
saggar
ˈsæɡə
sagger
ˈsæɡə
sandbagger
ˈsændˌbæɡə
stagger
ˈstæɡə
swagger
ˈswæɡə
tagger
ˈtæɡə
wagger
ˈwæɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOTDRAGGER

footballer
footballing
footballist
footbar
footbath
footboard
footboy
footbreadth
footbridge
footcloth
footer
footfall
footgear
footguards
foothill
foothold
footie
footing
footings
footle

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOTDRAGGER

agger
bigger
blagger
blogger
cloak-and-dagger
debugger
digger
double dagger
flogger
hugger
jogger
ligger
logger
Munro-bagger
outrigger
tigger
trigger
wigwagger
yagger
zigzagger

Synonyms and antonyms of footdragger in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «footdragger» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOTDRAGGER

Find out the translation of footdragger to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of footdragger from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «footdragger» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

footdragger
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

footdragger
570 millions of speakers

English

footdragger
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

footdragger
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

footdragger
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

footdragger
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

footdragger
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

footdragger
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

footdragger
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Footdragger
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

footdragger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

footdragger
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

footdragger
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Footdragger
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

footdragger
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

footdragger
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पादचारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

footdragger
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

footdragger
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

footdragger
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

footdragger
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

footdragger
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

footdragger
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

footdragger
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

footdragger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

footdragger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of footdragger

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOTDRAGGER»

The term «footdragger» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.600 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOTDRAGGER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «footdragger» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «footdragger» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about footdragger

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOTDRAGGER»

Discover the use of footdragger in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to footdragger and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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To Thine Own Self Be True
Unfortunately, distinguishing this obstinate footdragger from the “lost soul” who seems genuinely motivated to change is not something that can always be decided by just asking. Indeed, the person who doesn't want to be helped will often ask ...
Lewis M. Andrews, 2010
2
The Gift
“I don't want to be a footdragger,” interrupted Roger, “but these things take lots of bucks to produce. Where are you going to get the money?” “Roger, believe me, that's the least of our worries. The money will be there, and it will come from the ...
Sheldon Cohen, 2013
3
The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign ...
The United States has moved from the position of political leader on ozone-layer protection during the 1980s to the role of footdragger on climate change and biodiversity/safety in the 1990s. Even the pro-environmental Clinton presidency was ...
Paul G. Harris, 2002
4
Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question"
... press directives intended only for private circulation attacked Schacht, the minister of economic affairs, as a reactionary and a footdragger, but these were not to be published.47 From these examples of press blackouts, we may hypothesize ...
Sarah Ann Gordon, 1984
5
The European Union and the Asia-Pacific: Media, Public and ...
145 See e.g.M.Holland,'The CommonForeignand Security Policy', inL. Cram,D. Dinan andN.Nugent(eds), Developments in the European Union, London, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230–46;O.Elgström, Leader or Footdragger? Perceptions of the ...
Natalia Chaban, Martin Holland, 2008
6
Franklin the Diplomat: The French Mission
... committee with no one more closely and cordially than Robert Morris, a notorious footdragger on independence). He was also one of the first members of Congress to admit the possibility that America might need foreign help in procuring ...
Jonathan R. Dull, 1982
7
Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration ...
On 9 December 1961, de Gaulle flatly warned the rest of the Community—and Germany, the main footdragger, in particular—that France would not implement the next round of tariff cuts on manufactured goods if the CAP deadline set by the  ...
Mark Gilbert, 2004
8
WORD JUDGE USA
... FOOTBOY FOOTBOYS FOOTBRIDGE FOOTBRIDGES FOOTCLOTH FOOTCLOTHS FOOTDRAGGER FOOTDRAGGERS FOOTED FOOTER FOOTERS FOOTFALL FOOTFALLS FOOTFAULT FOOTFAULTED FOOTFAULTING FOOTFAULTS ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
9
Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of ...
The negative component in the base stem is more frequent: gorbun "hunchback" ExcEv¬, volokitcik "bureaucratic footdragger" ExcEv-, nasil'nik "perpetrator of violence, tyrant, oppressor" ExcEv_, voriška "petty thief" Exc, spletnik "gossip ...
Bronislava Volek, 1987
10
Environmental Policy in the European Union: Actors, ...
While Germany has become a more reluctant pace-setter, the UK has increasingly developed from an initial footdragger into an occasional leader. Whether Britain ever qualified as an environmental 'laggard' (Sbragia, 2000, p251) has been ...
Andrew Jordan, Camilla Adelle, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOTDRAGGER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term footdragger is used in the context of the following news items.
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You're Not Going To Disney World
... the cameras in January, but if this one is a footdragger at the box office the way Caspian was, Narnians may not get their Silver Chair in 2011. «Cinema Blend, Oct 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Footdragger [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/footdragger>. Apr 2024 ».
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