"displacement activity" meaning in English

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        "Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated."
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          "self-comfort",
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        "(psychology) Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated."
      ],
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        {
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          "text": "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. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/oct/19/gianni-infantino-fifa-world-cup-48-teams",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something done needlessly when procrastinating."
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        "(more broadly) Something done needlessly when procrastinating."
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "aimless behaviour; something done needlessly",
          "word": "pótcselekvés"
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    "Adriaan Kortlandt",
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        "(more broadly) Something done needlessly when procrastinating."
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    "Adriaan Kortlandt",
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