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buying time
vb. (present participle of buy time English)
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Buying Time
Buying Time is a 1989 American action film directed by Mitchell Gabourie and written by Mitchell Gabourie, Richard Gabourie, Gordon McDonald and Dean Gabourie. The film stars Jeff Schultz, Laura Cruickshank, Page Fletcher, Leslie Toth and Dean Stockwell. The film was released on May 12, 1989, by United Artists.
Usage examples of "buying time".
An Aes Sedai who paid attention to the temperature was buying time to think, usually about how to hide what she was thinking.
The Treasury Secretary was only buying time, and doing so with money, but it was a good tactic, good enough to confuse the public into believing things were not as bad as they appeared.