MALINGERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malingering mean? 

• MALINGERING (noun)
  The noun MALINGERING has 1 sense:

1. evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated

  Familiarity information: MALINGERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALINGERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

malingering; skulking

Context example:

they developed a test to detect malingering

Hypernyms ("malingering" is a kind of...):

dodging; escape; evasion (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do)

Derivation:

malinger (avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill)

 Context examples 

Malingering is a subject upon which I have sometimes thought of writing a monograph.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)