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# slacking

«slacking» in Mova's school dictionary: **being lazy and not doing work you should be doing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form — -ing form of slack (slack, slacks, slacked, slacking); noun (slacking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Slacking means being lazy and not doing work you should be doing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#m1)

2) Slacking means getting looser or slower, like a rope or the wind (often «slackening»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life: «Stop slacking and finish your sums!» In work talk: «slacking off». Phrases: «slacking off», «no slacking», «caught slacking».

### examples

- Stop slacking and get on with your work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#x1)
- The coach said, «No slacking at training!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#x2)
- He was caught slacking on his phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#x3)
- I've been slacking with my reading this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#x4)
- We can't afford to start slacking now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slacking/#x5)

### note

Informal. A person who slacks is a «slacker». The phrase «slack off» means the same as «slack».

### Trees and pragmatics

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