Meaning:
Cause a delay in something with the aim of improving one’s position
Examples:
- I need to buy time until the papers have published the false story.
- We need to buy time.
- We need to buy time.
- I needed to buy time.
- Which means he's trying to buy time for his daughter.
- The bus is driven into the river to buy time.
- No, but it will buy time, what little we have left.
- Because the family's trying to buy time.
- So New York was a misdirect to buy time.
- It's no good stalling, trying to buy time.