4syllables
temporising
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Definitions oftemporising
1verb
- To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
- To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
- To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
- To delay; to procrastinate.
- To comply; to agree.
1noun
- The act of one who temporizes, or acts evasively.
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