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. 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.

2. James Rolfe:

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Shane Green:

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