To delay or avoid doing an act when requested until there is no longer a need for it to be done. To projestinate is to delay so badly that it is a jest.
“I am not going to do that, I am justgoing to projestinate”
Delaying professional work of an important nature by doing other more mundane, yet professional work. Other forms of the word include profastination, profastinate.
I really didn't want to start that report, so I profastinated by checking my email and organizing my desk.
The act of putting off getting gas for your vehicle or waiting for the price of gas to go down only to find out when you do go to get gas the price has risen.
I should of got gas this morning before I went to work.I progastinated and the price jumped .50 cents after work.
When you intentionally provide an inflated estimate for a task because you really don't want to do it and you're hoping it will be a non-starter due to it's perceived size/cost/duration.
The software engineer provided an 18-month protestimate to product management for the new architecture that would've replaced much of his previous work.