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buy time
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Princeton's WordNet
buy timeverb
act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
Wiktionary
buy timeverb
Purposefully cause a delay to something, in order to achieve something else.
Etymology: buy + time
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buy time
To buy time means to intentionally perform actions or activities to delay an event or situation in order to have more time for preparations or decision-making.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of buy time in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of buy time in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of buy time in a Sentence
Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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