procrastinate
verb
[ prə(ʊ)ˈkrastɪneɪt ]
• delay or postpone action; put off doing something.
• "the temptation will be to procrastinate until the power struggle plays itself out"
Similar:
delay,
put off doing something,
postpone action,
defer action,
be dilatory,
use delaying tactics,
stall,
temporize,
play for time,
play a waiting game,
dally,
drag one's feet/heels,
take one's time,
hesitate,
vacillate,
dither,
be indecisive,
be undecided,
waver,
haver,
hum and haw,
swither,
dilly-dally,
shilly-shally,
kick the can down the road,
Origin:
late 16th century: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred till the morning’, from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’).
