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Verb: procrastinate  pru'kra-stu`neyt or prow'kra-stu`neyt
  1. Postpone doing what one should be doing
    "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
    - stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
     
  2. Postpone or delay needlessly
    "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"

Derived forms: procrastinated, procrastinates, procrastinating

See also: procrastination, procrastinator

Type of: delay

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