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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to gain time”. Compare French gagner du temps.
Verb
guadagnàre tempo (first-person singular present guadàgno tempo, first-person singular past historic guadagnài tempo, past participle guadagnàto tempo, auxiliary avére)
- to buy time
- Synonyms: prendere tempo, tergiversare; see also Thesaurus:temporeggiare
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Fino a quel momento, in pubblico avevamo rilasciato dichiarazioni generiche, o poco più, nel tentativo di guadagnare tempo.- So far, we'd issued little more than generic public statements in an effort to buy ourselves time.
- (literally, “Until that moment, in public we had issued general declarations, or little more, in the effort to buy time.”)
- to do (something) early so as to have more time later on; to precrastinate
- to save time
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