shirkverb [ I or T ]
uk/ʃɜːk/us/ʃɝːk/disapprovingto avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant:
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.
I will not shirk from my obligations.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- flinch
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shrink
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand around
- stand by
- stand round
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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