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buy time
Idioms and Phrases
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
"For now, buying time is the best strategy - maybe offering the US cheaper imports of industrial goods as a trade-off."
Russia has previously rejected the idea of a temporary ceasefire, saying it was an attempt to buy time and prevent Ukraine's military collapse.
Lenders to the debt-saddled company are offering up to £3bn in additional short-term loans to buy time to complete a major restructuring of the UK's biggest water and waste company.
This is a young group of players that Clement has and he is desperately trying to buy time to mould them into a gnarled unit.
But DP's floor leader Park Chan-dae slammed him for "buying time and prolonging the insurrection".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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