Similar words: daytime, playtime, at any time, every time, buy the farm, from time to time, time after time, time and time again. Meaning: v. act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage.
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1. The union leaders are trying to buy time by prolonging the negotiations.
2. He tried to buy time by saying he hadn't been well.
3. The negotiators kept the gunman talking to buy time for the hostages.
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4. Better to buy time with covert operations and the steady working of violence, crime and racketeering than to risk vote-endangering controversy.
5. By holding up the Harrison trial, Bradley could buy time for Maskelyne to produce proof positive supporting the lunar distance method.
6. Napster Inc. tried to buy time with a series of legal appeals ahead of the hearing by U.S.
7. He tried to buy time by talking.
8. Money can buy a clock, but buy time.
9. People are also trying to buy time.
10. Note about above, according to market demand to buy time.
11. Can we hold'em in the safe room to buy time?
12. They are trying to buy time by prolonging the negotiations.
13. All the negotiations are part of his plan buy time to gain more support.
14. But cannot buy time.
15. To buy time is too long for the treatment of development and corrosion caused certain problems.
16. She tried to buy time by doing a lot of talk.
17. It was a bluff, an attempt to buy time for Peter.
18. They arranged this to buy time to prepare themselves for the decisive battle.
19. A moratorium would at least buy time to look a bit harder for those fragile peaks.
20. Appeasement caused by blindness was followed by delaying tactics and doublespeak intended to buy time.
21. His appointment as vice-president in April was intended to buy time.
22. Until then, availability of super-computers was limited to military researchers and others who could afford to buy time on them.
23. Cooling might take the edge off the peak of a planetary fever, or perhaps buy time as emissions cuts begin to have the desired effects. But hazing is a complementary medicine, not an alternative one.
24. He or she “slow pays” creditors in order to buy time to beta test the product in her garage.
25. Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
26. The rear gunner is only good as a deterent to buy time for the pilot.
27. The answer is an "efficiency surge, " a crash improvement that can help offset the steady increase in energy prices and so buy time for the development of carbon-free alternatives.
28. With money, you can buy a clock, but you buy time.
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