Usually means: Avoiding work or responsibilities deliberately.
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  1. shirking: Merriam-Webster
  2. shirking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shirking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shirking, shirking: Wordnik
  5. shirking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shirking: Wiktionary
  7. shirking: Dictionary.com
  8. shirking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shirking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. shirking: Rhymezone
  11. Shirking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. shirking: FreeDictionary.org
  13. shirking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. shirking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Shirking: bizterms.net
  3. Shirking: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. shirking: Legal dictionary
  5. Shirking: Financial dictionary

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  1. shirking: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shirking)

▸ noun:  The act of one who shirks.

Similar:
soldiering, Goldbricking, Goofing off, slacking, shying, shunning, eschewment, shedding, eschewance, shooing, more...

Phrases:
shirking off, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, managerial, cowardly, less, mere, craven, ideological, military, willful, deliberate



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Similar:
soldiering, Goldbricking, Goofing off, slacking, shying, shunning, eschewment, shedding, eschewance, shooing, more...

Phrases:
shirking off, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, managerial, cowardly, less, mere, craven, ideological, military, willful, deliberate



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