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Work Procrastinating

Work Procrastinating is the avoidance of doing a task at work that needs to be accomplished. It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite its negative consequences.
Ugh, work is so tedious today! I should be work procrastinating for the rest of the day, even if I don't make the deadline.
by DictionaryWifi February 28, 2019
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productive procrastination

A form of procrastination in which you refrain from doing other work by productively wasting time on only a part of the work you are already doing.

In other words, you are procrastinating by doing work while doing virtually no work.
Boy: What are you doing?
Girl: I have just spent the last hour making my math homework look pretty and neat instead of doing my English homework.
Boy: Wow, at least you're working on something.
Girl: That's productive procrastination for ya.
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professional procrastinator

a person who charges hourly rates for their work and always procrastinates, getting more money from the job.
Wouldnt reccomend it, the last one i got was a professional procrastinator
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Package Procrastinating

Going out of your house to do anything else but wait for your long awaited package
"I have been waiting for my COD 4 Package to arrive today, but I had no patience to wait at home, so I went Package Procrastinating to the mall"
by YoYoYan December 2, 2011
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Procrastinator

Somebody who's supposed to be doing something productive, but chooses to look up what Procrastinator means in the Urban Dictionary.
You are a procrastinator. Get back to work you procrastinator!
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Productive Procrastination

Rationalizing your procrastination by doing something else productive.
Wil: "Have you finished that drawing for class yet?"
Amy: "No, I'm too busy doing the dishes."
Wil: "That's such productive procrastination and you know it."
by AKM178 February 22, 2011
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Pre-Procrastination

The art of accepting the fact that you will wind up doing a task at the last minute, so an educated decision is made just not to bother with it now and complete the task at the last minute.
Pre-Procrastination:

Person 1: "Are you working on your assignment due next week?"
Person 2: "Nah I've Pre-Procrastinated to just work on it the night before."
by Andy and Sandy September 19, 2012
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