The meeting had to be procrastinated ...

[slanovani]

Hi people,

I wanna ask something.

It's known that the word procrastination means to postpone something, mostly because of laziness. But for the last few years I've heard that people have started to use this word in a more general sense, as a synonym of postponing. for example, I've heard things like: The meeting had to be procrastinated for next month because the boss had to go on an urgent business trip. Is that a correct using of that word?

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi. people,

I wanna want to ask something.

It's known I know that the word "procrastination" means to postpone something, mostly because of laziness. But However, for the last few years I've heard that people have started to use this word in a more general sense, as a synonym of "postponing". For example, I've heard things like no colon here "The meeting had to be procrastinated for next month because the boss had to go on an urgent business trip". Is that a correct using use of that word?

Welcome to the forum.

Please note my changes above. We don't use textspeak/chatlish on the forum. There is no such word as "wanna" in standard English.

The answer is no. It is not used correctly in that sentence. I have never heard anyone use "procrastinate" in that way. Who have you heard using it?

 

[slanovani]

I've heard it mostly among my youngest canadian friends, who are between 20 and 40 years old.

 

[Barque]

I've never heard it used that way either, and I hope it doesn't catch on.

The meeting had to be procrastinated for next month

In any case, I'd expect "to" rather than "for", and if you're referring to a past event, you need "the" before "next month".

 

[tedmc]

Procrastinating is more than just postponing or deferring something. It is putting off things that that be done today to a later date because of laziness. I don't see how that can be used with meetings.

 

[emsr2d2]

I've heard it mostly among my youngest Canadian friends, who are between 20 and 40 years old.

 

[SoothingDave]

No, it's not correct. People procrastinate. It's not a transitive verb. You don't procrastinate something.

 

[Tarheel]

Procrastinating is more than just postponing or deferring something. It is putting off things that can be done today to a later date because of laziness. I don't see how that can be used with meetings.

I agree.

 

[emsr2d2]

I agree.

Let's keep setting a good example to other users by not adding unnecessary posts to threads please. The "Like" icon added to post #5 would have expressed the same thing

 

[Tarheel]

@emsr2d2 I also changed the second "that" to "can" (which nobody noticed).

 

[Amigos4]

I also changed the second "that" to "can" (which nobody noticed).

@Tarheel - I noticed but I didn't "Like" it!

 

[Kolridg]

No, it's not correct. People procrastinate. It's not a transitive verb. You don't procrastinate something.

However, judging by the content on the web it might be correct "to procrastinate on something"? For example, this topic's title is "Why do I procrastinate on everything?"

However, on the Grammarist it is said that the transitive usage is correct as well as intransitive, and so using "on" is unecessary.

 

[jutfrank]

The Grammarist cites the OED as the source of the claim that procrastinate works transitively, but I can't find what evidence Oxford has for this as you need a subscription to access it. I can't find any examples in any corpora.

I procrastinated my homework all night sounds terribly wrong to me.