procrastination

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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• Canada, General-American: /pɹoʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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• Canada, General-American: [-ʃn̩]
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• Australian: /pɹəʉˌkɹæs.tɪˈnæɪ.ʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /pɹɐʉˌkɹɛs.təˈnæɪ.ʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 K R AE2 S T AH0 N EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: uitstel — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Arabic: تَسْوِيف (taswīf) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Arabic: تَأْجِيل (taʔjīl) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Armenian: պրոկրաստինացիա (prokrastinacʻia) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Asturian: procrastinación — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Azerbaijani: ertələmə — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Azerbaijani: yubatma — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Basque: prokrastinazio — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Bulgarian: отла́гане (otlágane) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Bulgarian: отсро́чване (otsróčvane) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Bulgarian: прокрастинация (prokrastinacija) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Catalan: procrastinació — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Chinese Mandarin: 耽擱 /耽搁 (dāngē) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Chinese Mandarin: 拖延 (tuōyán) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Czech: odkládání — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Czech: prokrastinace — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Danish: udsættelse — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Danish: overspringshandling — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Danish: prokrastinering — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Dutch: uitstel — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Dutch: uitstelgedrag — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Dutch: procrastinatie — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Esperanto: prokrasto — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Estonian: prokrastinatsioon — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: lykkäys — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: jahkailu — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: viivyttely — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: vitkastelu — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: aikailu — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: kuhnailu — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Finnish: aikaansaamattomuus — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• French: procrastination — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Galician: nugalla — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Galician: larcha — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Galician: doca — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Galician: procrastinación — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• German: Aufschub — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• German: Prokrastination — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Greek: αναβλητικότητα (anavlitikótita) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Hebrew: דחיינות — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Hindi: दीर्घसूत्रता (dīrghasūtratā) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Hungarian: halogatás — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Hungarian: késlekedés — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Indonesian: penundaan — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Indonesian: prokrastinasi — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Italian: procrastinazione — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Japanese: 先延ばし (sakinobashi) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Japanese: 遅滞 (chitai) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Kannada: ವಿಳಂಬನ (viḷambana) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Korean: 지연행동 (jiyeonhaengdong) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Latin: morōsitās — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Latin: prōcrāstinātiō — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Lithuanian: atidėliojimas — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Lithuanian: vilkinimas — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Malayalam: വൈകിക്കുക (vaikikkuka) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Māori: tonanawetanga — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Norwegian Bokmål: prokrastinering — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Polish: zwłoka — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Polish: prokrastynacja — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Portuguese: procrastinação — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੋਕ੍ਰਾਸਟ੍ਰੀਨੇਸ਼ਨ (prokrāsṭrīneśan) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Romanian: amânare — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Romanian: procrastinare — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Russian: откла́дывание (otkládyvanije) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Russian: отсро́чка (otsróčka) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Russian: промедле́ние (promedlénije) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Russian: проволо́чка (provolóčka) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Russian: прокрастина́ция (prokrastinácija) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Scottish Gaelic: màirnealachd — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Sinhalese: කල් දැමීම (kal dæmīma) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Slovak: prokrastinácia — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Slovene: prokrastinacija — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Spanish: desidia — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Spanish: dejar algo para más tarde, para mañana... — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Spanish: procrastinación — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Swedish: förhalning — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Swedish: förhalande — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Swedish: prokrastinering — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Tagalog: pagpapaliban — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Tagalog: pagpapabukas-bukas — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Tamil: தள்ளிப்போடுதல் (taḷḷippōṭutal) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Thai: การผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Thai: การผัด — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Turkish: ertelemecilik — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Ukrainian: прокрастина́ція (prokrastynácija) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Ukrainian: відкладання на потім (vidkladannja na potim) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Ukrainian: зволіка́ння (zvolikánnja) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Uzbek: prokrastinatsiya — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Vietnamese: trì hoãn — act of postponing, delaying or putting off
• Yiddish: אָפּלייגעכץ (opleygekhts) — act of postponing, delaying or putting off