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. 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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Shane Green:

   Mark Zuckerbergs announcement that Facebook will start to embrace privacy and encryption on Mark Zuckerbergs apps is another effort to buy time and hold regulators at the gate.