BUY TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buy time mean? 

• BUY TIME (verb)
  The verb BUY TIME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BUY TIME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUY TIME (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "buy time" is one way to...):

delay; detain; hold up (cause to be slowed down or delayed)

Sentence frames:

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