0 present participle of slack
1 to work more slowly and with less effort than usual, or to go more slowly:
Indicative of the intense disciplinary environment, workers were often fired for infractions or slacking off during their first half year of employment.
Slacking by specific others in many foraging bands hardly goes unnoticed, and, as discussed in section 4.4, extreme examples are often treated with some form of direct or indirect punishment.
Those figures do not disclose that the working people of this country, on whom the bulk of our agricultural and industrial effort depends, are slacking.
That is another way of saying that the workers are slacking and not giving of their best.
No one is slacking and somehow, despite the fact that they are overworked, the people cope and still give a remarkable service.
They are slacking, and there is voluntary absenteeism, not only in mining but in other industries.
Very often when the workmen appear to be slacking there is some good reason.
Some are, perhaps, held up as examples of slacking just because they happen to be in the public eye.
