Usually means: Avoided or neglected a responsibility.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. shirked: Merriam-Webster
  2. shirked: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shirked: Vocabulary.com
  4. shirked: Wordnik
  5. shirked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shirked: Wiktionary
  7. shirked: Dictionary.com
  8. shirked: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shirked: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Shirked: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. shirked: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shirked: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shirked: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shirked: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shirk)

verb:  (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
verb:  (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
verb:  (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
noun:  One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
noun:  (Islam) The unforgivable sin of association (of something with God).
noun:  A surname.
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