buy time: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- To delay or stall in order to gain additional time to prepare, decide, or take action.
Examples
BetaWe tried to buy time by asking for an extension before the proposal deadline.
Intentamos ganar tiempo pidiendo una prórroga antes de la fecha límite de la propuesta.
The defense lawyer bought time while searching for new evidence to support his client.
El abogado defensor ganó tiempo mientras buscaba nuevas pruebas para apoyar a su cliente.
Can you buy time by postponing the meeting until we finalize the report?
¿Puedes ganar tiempo posponiendo la reunión hasta que finalicemos el informe?
- To obtain or purchase a period of broadcast or advertising time on radio, television, or other media.
Examples
BetaThey bought time on national television to advertise their new product during prime hours.
Compraron tiempo en la televisión nacional para anunciar su nuevo producto durante las horas pico.
The company buys time on radio to reach local audiences with their campaigns.
La empresa compra tiempo en la radio para llegar a audiencias locales con sus campañas.
We will buy time on the streaming platform to promote the documentary next month.
Compraremos tiempo en la plataforma de streaming para promocionar el documental el próximo mes.
He bought time during the conference to deliver a sponsored message for his client.
Compró tiempo durante la conferencia para transmitir un mensaje patrocinado para su cliente.
Examples:
- EN: Don't try to buy time ...ES: No trates de ganar tiempo...
- EN: Majesty, eventually a war with Prussia will be needed to assert our supremacy. Now we have to buy time, so that we can prepare.ES: Se necesitará una guerra con Prusia para asentar la supremacía debemos ganar tiempo, para poder prepararnos
- EN: Gotta warn Bertolini to buy time, as without witnesses a blow on the head is no use!ES: Avise a Bertolini que haga tiempo, ...ya que el golpe no sirve sin testigos.
- EN: It's to buy time, until the end of the show.ES: Son para ganar tiempo.
- EN: Don't try to buy time ...ES: No trates de ganar tiempo...
- EN: Majesty, eventually a war with Prussia will be needed to assert our supremacy. Now we have to buy time, so that we can prepare.ES: Se necesitará una guerra con Prusia para asentar la supremacía debemos ganar tiempo, para poder prepararnos
- EN: Gotta warn Bertolini to buy time, as without witnesses a blow on the head is no use!ES: Avise a Bertolini que haga tiempo, ...ya que el golpe no sirve sin testigos.
- EN: It's to buy time, until the end of the show.ES: Son para ganar tiempo.
- EN: We will buy time.ES: Ganaremos tiempo.
- EN: You have to buy time with this sweeper!ES: Hay que ganar segundos con este barrendero.
- EN: Advertisers actually calling in to buy time.ES: Los anunciantes quieren comprar publicidad.
- EN: He gets to the point, he's just trying to buy time.ES: Ve al grano, sólo intenta ganar tiempo.
- EN: You want to buy time.ES: Quiere ganar tiempo.
- EN: We're trying to buy time, so he can tell her in his own way.ES: Tratamos de darle tiempo, para que... Guns se lo explicara a su manera.
- EN: It serves his purpose to buy time.ES: Sirve a su fin, ganar tiempo.
- EN: harass the enemy and buy time for a Navy that was still on the drawing boards.ES: hostigar al enemigo y ganar tiempo para una Marina que aún estaba en los tableros de dibujo.
- EN: But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with our lives.ES: Pero cuando llegue la guerra, seremos los primeros en caer.
- EN: If I had a suspicious nature, Captain, I would say that you sabotaged the transporter to buy time.ES: Si fuera desconfiada, capitán, yo diría que has saboteado el transportador para ganar tiempo.
- EN: It's another reason why I took the oath, to buy time.ES: Ud tenía razón de la amistad que se creo en el ejército Pero le pido por los dos
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