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Buy time

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  1. 1
    To purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else. idiomatic

    "We need you to buy us some time, so distract the security guard for a few minutes."

  2. 2
    act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage wordnet

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