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1. • Delay

Princeton's WordNet

1. buy timeverb

   act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage

How to use buy time in a sentence?

1. Antony Blinken:

   His new recommendation was to extend the mission with US troops for a while to see if it could yield a political settlement. Buy time for negotiations.

2. Edward Hoagland:

   City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

3. Andrzej Duda:

   Dialogue with Russia has no sense, one has to present very tough conditions to Vladimir Putin. One has to say,' Unless you meet these conditions, we don't have anything to talk about.' We are going to provide support to Ukraine decisively, we are going to increase sanctions regime, because if you conduct a dialogue which does not achieve anything, it is only a game to buy time by Russia.

4. James Rolfe:

   Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.

5. Bill Norris:

   This young man( Bernard Tomic) not trying in Bernard Tomic match at Wimbledon is not a good thing, if I got called out to court( and realized) some guy just wants to buy time, it is gamesmanship.

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