Meaning Of Procrastinator In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of procrastinator in English procrastinatornoun [ C ] uk /prəˈkræs.tɪ.neɪ.tər/ us /proʊˈkræs.tə.neɪ.t̬ɚ/ Add to word list Add to word list someone who keeps delaying things that must be done: I never buy my gifts until Christmas Eve because I'm a procrastinator. Delaying and wasting time

• ado
• busywork
• buy time idiom
• carry something over phrasal verb
• dally
• gridlock
• inefficiency
• inefficiently
• kept
• kick
• kick something into the long grass idiom
• pigeonhole
• push
• raincheck
• retard
• retardation
• set someone back (something) phrasal verb
• shelve
• spin
• stall

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Examples of procrastinator

procrastinator Unfortunately, it is the country which has to struggle with the ruin which the procrastinator all too often produces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without any such time limits procrastinators will have the time of their lives emasculating the powers of the commission and devaluing the purpose of non-discrimination notices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without any such time limits one can foresee procrastinators having the time of their lives emasculating the powers of the commission and devaluing the purpose of a non-discrimination notice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a major procrastinator and is currently several weeks behind on his projects. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Procrastinators show a tendency to produce more downward counterfactuals than upward counterfactuals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such procrastinators may have difficulty seeking support due to social stigma and the belief that task-aversion is caused by laziness, low willpower, or low ambition. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They manufacture additional stress in their lives by being perfectionists or procrastinators. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He had trouble making decisions, not because he was a procrastinator, but because he was not well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If pursued, it is less likely the procrastinator would remain a procrastinator. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, procrastinators have been found to receive worse grades that do non-procrastinators. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Task or problem-solving oriented coping is rarer for the procrastinator because it is more effective in reducing procrastination. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is estimated that 80%95% of college students engage in procrastination, approximately 75% considering themselves procrastinators. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Respectively, patients are frequently described as indecisive, procrastinators, recalcitrant, and as having low or no motivation, which can explain why many interventions fail to accomplish significant results. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of procrastinator?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 拖延者，有拖延症的人… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 拖延者，有拖延症的人… See more Need a translator?

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