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sag(1) (iou)



sag noun1. [sag] L16.
[from the verb.]
Nautical. A movement or tendency to leeward. L16.
An act of sagging; a sinking, a subsidence; a place where a surface has subsided, a depression. E18.
b. A temporary commercial decline, a temporary slump in business activity, a temporary fall in profits or prices. L19.
The dip below the horizontal line of a rope, wire, etc. supported at two points; the perpendicular distance from its lowest point to the straight line between the points of support. M19.
Comb.: Sagbag (proprietary name for) a bean-bag chair; sag pond: whose basin is the result of subsidence associated with a fault; sag wagon slang a van that follows a cycle race and picks up exhausted riders.