Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - skive
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Skive
skive
(skives, skiving, skived) If you skive, you avoid working, especially by staying away from the place where you should be working. (BRIT INFORMAL) The company treated me as though I were skiving. VERB: V • Skive off means the same as skive. ‘I absolutely hated school,’ Rachel says. ‘I skived off all the time.’... Almost everybody’s kids skive off school. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n
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1.
transitive verb (~d; skiving) Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skifa to slice Date: circa 1825 to cut off (as leather or rubber) in thin layers or pieces ; pare ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. split or pare (hides, leather, etc.). 2 intr. Brit. sl. a evade a duty, shirk. b (often foll. by off) avoid work by absenting oneself, play truant. --n. sl. 1 an instance of shirking. 2 an easy option. Derivatives skiver n. Etymology: ON sk{iacute}fa, rel. to ME schive slice ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. тех. алмазный круг 2. (также skive off) скашивать, стачивать 3. зачищать 4. халтурить; сачковать; уклоняться (от обязанностей) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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also skive off ~ v BrE informal to avoid work or school by staying away or leaving without permission - skiver n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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