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What does buy time mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) Purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.
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Cutting costs will buy time, and slimmer operations will make it easier to implement his strategy.
What happens if a party wants to buy time in a particular program, but the broadcaster says that it is already sold out in that time period?
Laggards can buy time, but they cannot necessarily wriggle out of the obligation to come clean, or at least cleaner.
Dos Santos also repeated his accusation that Savimbi had used previous peace accords to buy time while he rearmed his troops.
That would buy time in which he might hope to shuck off the damaging legacy of Mr Prodi's final months.
Lots of advertisers, I predict, will buy time and space from YouTube, only to have users hoot it down.

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