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# procrastination

«procrastination» in Mova's school dictionary: **putting off something you should do, especially something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (procrastination — uncountable); verb procrastinate; person procrastinator

### meaning for a pupil

Procrastination is putting off something you should do, especially something boring or hard, and doing it later or at the last minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In school life, procrastination is leaving homework or revision until the night before. Lessons on habits and self-reflection explain why we procrastinate (fear, boredom) and how to stop: break the task into small steps, start with five minutes, remove distractions. Saying: "Procrastination is the thief of time."

### examples

- My procrastination meant I did my project the night before it was due. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x1)
- Procrastination is when you tidy your desk instead of doing your homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x2)
- Mum says playing games before chores is pure procrastination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x3)
- To beat procrastination, start with just five minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x4)
- Procrastination made the job feel even bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x5)
- "Procrastination is the thief of time," says the old proverb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x6)
- Breaking the essay into small parts helped me stop procrastination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Long word: pro-cras-ti-na-tion ("pro" forward + "cras" tomorrow, in Latin). Verb: procrastinate. It is not the same as laziness; people often procrastinate because a task feels hard or worrying.

### In the corpora

- [Putting things off is called procrastination, and everyone does it sometimes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/9/)
- [Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a deadline is when the work must be handed in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «procrastination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/procrastination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.