Synonyms for buy time
buy time

Princeton's WordNet

1. buy timeverb

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

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1. • Delay

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1. 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.

2. James Rolfe:

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

3. 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.

4. National Intelligence John Ratcliffe:

   Obviously the more, the better. But we've had extraordinary insight into this topic for many months, much more than has been declassified. Pretending we didn't is political theater and a classic example of a politician trying to buy time by using the IC as a scapegoat.

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.