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What does buy time mean?
WordNet
Verb
buy time -
act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
detain,
delay,
hold up cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
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Wiktionary
buy time (Verb) Purposefully cause a delay to something, in order to achieve something else.
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