Meaning & use
goldbricking
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Avoiding work or shirking one's duties while appearing to be busy.
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Management suspected some employees were goldbricking during their long lunch breaks.
He got a reputation for goldbricking, always disappearing right when there was heavy lifting to do.
A note on using this word
The term originated from the practice of selling fake gold-plated bricks as if they were solid gold, and by the early 1900s Americans applied it to soldiers who dodged their duties.
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working diligently
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