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- Dictionarypro·cras·ti·nate/prəˈkrastəˌnāt/
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- 1. delay or postpone action; put off doing something: "it won't be this price for long, so don't procrastinate"
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The meaning of PROCRASTINATE is to put off intentionally and habitually. How to use procrastinate in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Procrastinate.
PROCRASTINATE definition: 1. to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring: 2. to…. Learn more.
verb. /prəˈkræstɪneɪt/ [intransitive] (formal, disapproving) Verb Forms. to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it. People were dying of starvation while governments procrastinated.
PROCRASTINATE meaning: 1. to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring: 2. to…. Learn more.
Procrastinate means to put off doing something until a future time. When people sit down to write term papers, they can find all kinds of clever ways to procrastinate: reorganizing the paperclips, calling everyone they know, typing "I am bored" fifty times in a row.
If you procrastinate, you keep leaving things you should do until later, often because you do not want to do them. [ formal ] Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.
PROCRASTINATE meaning: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.
