buy time


Increase the time available for a specific purpose. For example, Renting an apartment buys them time to look around for a new house.

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How to use buy time in a sentence

  • Books are good and pictures are good, and money to buy them is therefore good—but to buy time—in other words, life!'

    The Map of Life | William Edward Hartpole Lecky