0 present participle of skive
1 to be absent from work or school without permission:
I know it is easy to talk about skiving and easy to talk about the iniquity of bureaucracy.
Aims has claimed that shop stewards have said that the new scheme will produce conflict, theft, skiving and overmanning.
They are receiving public money, and are skiving off and obtaining money from company directorships and parliamentary adviserships.
In 1995–96, despite the fact that registered unemployment has fallen, 267,000 unemployed people are skiving.
We must encourage the work ethic and discourage skiving.
These people are not skiving or using the system; they are desperately in need.
He is probably out skiving, having a day off, or he is in the bar.
One cannot believe that the skiving rate and the disqualification rate are unconnected.
