displacement activity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.
  2. Something done needlessly when procrastinating.
    — At last week’s meeting of Infantino’s expanded Fifa Council – the world’s best attended displacement activity – there was instead much discussion of the proposal to bulk up football’s flagship tournament to 40 or 48 teams.

词形变化

displacement activities plural

词源

First mentions in 1940 by two Dutch researchers Nikolaas Tinbergen and Adriaan Kortlandt
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