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precrastinate

precrastinate verb: to engage in precrastination.

Verb

precrastinate (third-person singular simple present precrastinates, present participle precrastinating, simple past and past participle precrastinated)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in precrastination.
    • It can also “precrastinate,” that is, engage in a series of tasks too early, in a way that results in serious and unnecessary burdens and costs.2015, Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice, →ISBN, page 12
    • You know me. I never procrastinate. I do the opposite. I precrastinate.2015, Joseph Muratore, Rise of a Terrorist, →ISBN

Forms of precrastinate

third-person singular presentprecrastinates
present participleprecrastinating
past participleprecrastinated
pastprecrastinated

Origin of precrastinate

Back-formation from precrastination, as a blend of pre- + procrastinate.

Questions about precrastinate

What does precrastinate mean?
Precrastinate means to engage in precrastination.
What part of speech is precrastinate?
Precrastinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of precrastinate?
The past tense of precrastinate is precrastinated.

Words near precrastinate in the dictionary

  1. precracking
  2. precracks
  3. precrafted
  4. precranial
  5. precrash
  6. precrastinate
  7. precrastinated
  8. precrastinates
  9. precrastinating
  10. precrastination
  11. precrastinations

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