buy time

Speech parts

1. buy time - Verb

2. buy time - Phrase

Meaning

act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stonewall delay stall detain equivocate temporize beat around the bush hold off mark time stall for time play for time buy some time bide one's time use delaying tactics be dilatory
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Antonyms

rush dash hurry hustle press on speed up
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Hypernyms

delay detain hold up

Examples

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. Eric Zorn

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. James Taylor

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time. Ally Carter

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. Edward Hoagland

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. Grace Paley

Better to sell than buy time. Finnish Proverb

Words in the phrase

buy time

Close letter words and terms

buy the ranch buy the same horse twice buy them buy to let buy too late buy too much