Crossword clues for buy time
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) Purposefully cause a delay to something, in order to achieve something else.
WordNet
v. act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
Usage examples of "buy time".
Skeeter said, trying to buy time before the gladiator choked and/or stabbed the life out of him.
When those wars had lasted long enough to dwarf the War of the Hundred Years, when it seemed the Shadow was everywhere victorious and every victory of the Light did no more than buy time, a man named Mordeth became a councilor in Aridhol, and counseled the rule that to win, to survive, Aridhol must be harder than the Shadow, more cruel than the Shadow, less trusting.
People need to be able to waste time, make time, lose time and buy time.
Would He not expect us to do anything that we can, even to pretending to treat with demons, to buy time to crush them in the end?
MacArthur struggled to hold the critical southern port of Pusan to buy time until reinforcements arrived.