0 to be absent from work or school without permission: --
1 to do something else when you should be working: --
He was always skiving off and going to the cinema.
We realized that we could skive without the management noticing.
Skive-burnishing is often used in hydraulic cylinder applications.
He also co-patented machines designed to manufacture barbed-wire fencing, skive, gage and mark leather, create leather buttonholes, rub type, and remove bristles from sealskins.
The cut in benefit will not flush skiving carpenters out of the woodwork where they have supposedly lived in such comfort.
These people are not skiving or using the system; they are desperately in need.
In 1995–96, despite the fact that registered unemployment has fallen, 267,000 unemployed people are skiving.
Young people do not refuse to go on these training schemes because they want to skive.
They even skived off exams at the end and just dropped out of the system.
We should work conscientiously and hard, refusing to connive at those who fiddle, slack and skive.
