"put off work" is a correct phrase and it can be used in written English.
It means to delay or postpone doing work. You can use it when talking about procrastination or a task that has been delayed. Example: I really need to finish my report, but I keep putting off work and now the deadline is approaching.
This is another reason that they had put off work on the building.
Places that make you want to put off work to spend a whole afternoon in them".
Loewenstein also suggests that our memory for the intensity of visceral rewards is deficient: when we put off preparing for that meeting by telling ourselves that we'll do it tomorrow, we fail to take into account that tomorrow the temptation to put off work will be just as strong.
It was not until the 1980s, by which time the idea that the economy was knowledge driven had firmly taken hold, that our lawmakers finally abandoned the prewar assumption that all rich people were rentiers and recognized that at the prevailing rates talented people were being put off work.
But Congress removed proposals that would have required an 18percentt increase in timber harvests on national forests, required the Forest Service to cut down trees before setting fires to clear underbrush, delayed revisions to forest management plans and put off work to remove logging roads from forests.
Ms. Ridder tried to do the room on what passes around here for a budget, reflecting a year in which some of her big-spender clients had either put off work or pulled back, replacing, say, an expensive Stark carpet with a cheaper sisal.
Aldermen said the administration had put off working on side streets to reduce overtime costs for the financially strapped city.
Dunn says that he hopes people aren't put off working in social care because of pay and difficult conditions.
Just like exercise, yard work, and cleaning the gutters, it's easy to put off working on your startup.
It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their applications until the last minute or end up with a generic and clichéd essay.
They fear that locals could be put off working with the intelligence community because their identities are not secure, and I suppose at a stretch that could be seen as putting future lives at risk.
