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Pronunciation / Transliteration: procrastinar
"Ela sempre costuma procrastinar quando o projeto é difícil."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
1 sense- 1
To delay or postpone action; to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
"He tends to procrastinate when faced with difficult writing assignments."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
From Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare, from pro- (forward) + crastinus (tomorrow, from cras 'tomorrow').
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10 Global Lexicons: How "procrastinate" is said worldwide
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procrastiner
Transliteration: procrastiner
"Il ne faut pas procrastiner avant les examens."
prokrastinieren
Transliteration: prokrastinieren
"Viele Studenten neigen dazu, vor Prüfungen zu prokrastinieren."
procrastinare
Transliteration: procrastinare
"Smetto di procrastinare e finisco il lavoro."
procrastinar
Transliteration: procrastinar
"No debes procrastinar tus tareas importantes."
procrastinar
Transliteration: procrastinar
"Ela sempre costuma procrastinar quando o projeto é difícil."
देरी करना
Transliteration: deri karna
"काम में देरी करना सफलता में बाधा बन सकता है।"
拖延
Transliteration: tuōyán
"做事不要总是拖延。"
미루다
Transliteration: miruda
"중요한 일을 나중으로 미루지 마세요."
先延ばしにする
Transliteration: sakienobashi ni suru
"仕事を先延ばしにするのはよくない。"
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