buy time

1. Increase the time available for a specific purpose. For example, Renting an apartment buys them time to look around for a new house.

Example Sentences

Despite its military prowess, Sparta lacked strategic depth; its king, Archidamus II, therefore urged his countrymen to remonstrate with the Athenians, to buy time while recruiting other distant powers to their side.

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Grijalva, for her part, said that she thinks Johnson is trying to buy time to convince one of the four Republican lawmakers who signed the Epstein petition — Reps.

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Netanyahu is known as a master of political manoeuvres, threading a path between political roadblocks to buy time.

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Nexstar and Sinclair cover nearly 25% of U.S. television homes, which will diminish the ratings and reach of advertisers who buy time in the ABC television program.

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"The time has come to end the excuses designed to buy time so he can cling to power."

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