buy time

VERB
  1. act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
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How To Use buy time In A Sentence

  • They will try to buy time with a vast array of market manipulations and financial gimmickry.
  • The keyhole procedure allowed us to buy time and to let her grow a little before the major operation. The Sun
  • The keyhole procedure allowed us to buy time and to let her grow a little before the major operation. The Sun
  • The EpiPen is a stopgap measure to buy time until life-saving care can be administered. NYT > Home Page
  • At the very least, however, it would dishearten Gadhafi's supporters and buy time for the rebels. It's Not Too Late to Save Libya
  • His appointment as vice-president in April was intended to buy time.
  • Lots of advertisers, I predict, will buy time and space from YouTube, only to have users hoot it down.
  • In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime.
  • A legal umbrella protects the business from its creditors and helps it to buy time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Naxal experts say that the initial offer of the Maoists for a 72-day truce was "just to buy time" as it was during the period when tribals had to enter forests to cut fruits, 'mahua' and tobacco leaves, forcing the extremists to abandon their camps. The Times of India
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