waiting game

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Definition von waiting game im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor

Arafat and Sharon have both been playing a waiting game since the Israeli leader's election a year ago.

If you play a waiting game, you deal with a situation by deliberately doing nothing, because you believe you will gain an advantage by acting later, or because you are waiting to see how other people are going to act. He's playing a waiting-game. He'll hope to hang on as long as possible until the pressure is off. The stratagem of deferring action and allowing the passage of time to work in one's favor

a strategy of delay

Türkische aussprache

weytîng geym

Synonyme

cat-and-mouse, lying low, wait-and-see attitude, wait-and-see policy, waiting it out, watching and waiting

Aussprache

/ˈwātəɴɢ ˈgām/ /ˈweɪtɪŋ ˈɡeɪm/