English-French translations for buy time

• gagner du temps
  Nous avons essayé de gagner du temps au moyen de renflouements. We have been trying to buy time with bailouts.
  Qu'allez-vous faire également pour faire en sorte que le commissaire Oettinger n'utilise pas cette approche simplement pour gagner du temps en matière d'énergie renouvelable? What also are you going to do to ensure that Commissioner Oettinger does not buy time in this way when it comes to energy efficiency?

Definition of buy time

• Purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else

Examples

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

Related words

• buyer nation
• buy at an auction
• buy at auction
• buy a season ticket for
• potential buyer
• prospective buyer