cunctator

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noun someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)

Borrowed from Latin cūnctātor (“delayer”); applied as a surname to Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

[279] Q. Fabius Maximus, surnamed Cunctator. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thus also, Quintus Fabius Maximus received the Agnomen of Cunctator, from his checking the victorious career of Hannibal by avoiding a battle.] — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius
All campaigns which are remarkable for temporising, as it is called, like those of the famous Fabius Cunctator, have been calculated chiefly on the destruction of the enemy by his own efforts. — On War, Carl von Clausewitz

procrastinator, postponer

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