temporize
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verb- 1.
(British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive)To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
“There are more answers to that than you may think,” Chih temporized, because there were, but they could see that there was only one answer that really mattered to tigers.
- 2.
(British, English, Oxford, US, broadly, intransitive)(intransitive, by extension) To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
- 3.
(British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)(transitive, dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
- 4.
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, intransitive)To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim (“fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each”).
- 5.
(British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive, obsolete)To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.
- 6.
(British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)(transitive, medicine) To take temporary measures or actions to manage a situation without providing a definitive or permanent solution.
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ine-pro From Middle French temporiser (to wait one's time, temporize) + -ize. Temporiser is derived from temporizāre, from Latin temporāre (to delay, put off) + -izāre. Temporāre is derived from tempor-, the inflected stem of tempus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temp-, *ten- (to extend, stretch (in the sense of a stretch of time)), or *temh₁- (to cut (in the sense of a section of time))) +…