0 present participle of shirk
1 to 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.
Assume that the probability of detecting shirking workers depends on the complexity of the routine of which they are part.
In addition, all parties know that the probability of verification given shirking is one-third.
Finally, this case points to two general limitations of both the shirking and reputation-building interpretations of ideology.
As a result, time-series (more specifically, pooled cross-sectional time-series) data were introduced in the early 1990s, and cross-time shirking analyses were produced.
To highlight the effect of disincentives, they play two games that are identical except that one allows employers to punish workers for shirking.
But this fact might conceal larceny, which was the authorities' nightmare together with the shirking of duty and insubordination.
There was little a planter could do to coerce the contractor to minimize the risk of shirking.
His or her counterpart in the sugar plantations elsewhere in the world was concerned about shirking and industriousness.
