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单词 buy time
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buy time

Delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one’s own position.He also realised that Britain was not well prepared for war and that he needed to buy time to improve Britain's military position....
  • But it buys time in the hope of getting a better eventual mix of investments and in the expectation that share prices generally will pick up.
  • Freezing also buys time, holding the material in suspended animation until the work of cleaning and repairing begins.
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