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Jet lag

Meaning in travel & airport english, with examples

/ˈdʒet læɡ/nounCommon term

In travel & airport english, jet lag means: Tiredness and sleep problems after a long flight across several time zones, because your body clock still follows the time at home.

In Turkish: jet lag, saat farkı yorgunluğu

How it is used

People say they have jet lag or are jet-lagged, and that it takes a few days to get over jet lag. Many travellers find flying east harder than flying west. It follows long-haul flights, not short trips within the same time zone.

Example sentences

  1. I'm so jet-lagged; I woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep.

  2. It took me almost a week to get over the jet lag after Tokyo.

Common collocations

  • have jet lag
  • get over jet lag
  • jet-lagged
  • suffer from jet lag
  • bad jet lag
  • flightA journey by plane; also a particular plane service that leaves at a fixed time and has its own flight number.
  • ETAShort for estimated time of arrival: the time a plane, train, taxi or person is expected to arrive.
  • landOf a plane or its passengers: to arrive on the ground at the end of a flight.

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