WORD OF THE DAY

21-NOV-2014

procrastination

prə(ʊ)ˌkrastɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

NOUN

1. the action of delaying or postponing something.

DEFINITION

Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.

SYNONYMS

dithering, delaying tactics, dilatoriness, stalling, temporizing, hesitation,vacillation; 

humming and hawing; 

informaldilly-dallying