procrastinate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin prōcrastinātum, past participle of prōcrastinō (“defer, put off till tomorrow”), from prō (“in favor of”) + crāstinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”)
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- (RP) IPA: /prəʊˈkræstɪneɪt/
- (US) enPR: prō-krăs'tə-nāt', IPA: /proʊˈkræstəneɪt/, /prəˈkræstəneɪt/
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[edit] Verb
procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)
- (intransitive) To put off; to delay taking action; to wait until later.
- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
- (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
- 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:
- Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.
- 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:
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put off; to delay taking action
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put off; delay something
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[edit] External links
- procrastinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- procrastinate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- procrastinate at OneLook Dictionary Search
[edit] Italian
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procrastinate
- second-person plural present indicative of procrastinare
- second-person plural imperative of procrastinare
- Feminine plural of procrastinato
[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
prōcrāstināte
- first-person plural present active imperative of prōcrāstinō
