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temporize

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To delay a decision or action in order to gain time.

Unable to choose a venue, the organizers continued to temporize.

Dictionary practice example.

The organizer next tried to temporize by requesting another discussion mainly to gain time before choosing a title.