procrastinate
procrastinate
verb (procrastinate, procrastinated, procrastinated, procrastinating)
/prəˈkræstɪneɪt/
intransitive (formal, disapproving)
​to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it
People were dying of starvation while governments procrastinated.
Word Origin
late 16th cent.: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred till the morning’, from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’).