delaying tactic

• delay tactic (chiefly US)

delaying tactic (plural delaying tactics)

1. Something that is done in order to put off a decision or action until later.

• foot-dragging
• milk the clock
• run out the clock
• play for time
• stall

• “delaying tactic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “delaying tactic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “delaying tactic” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “delaying tactics” (US) / “delaying tactics” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “delaying tactics” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.