Usually means: Wasting time, being indecisive, procrastinating.
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  4. dillydallying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. dillydallying: Wiktionary
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▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of dilly-dally [(intransitive) To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.]
▸ Also see dillydally


Opposite:
procrastination, efficiency, promptness, expeditiousness, decisiveness

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Opposite:
procrastination, efficiency, promptness, expeditiousness, decisiveness




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