delaying tactic

• delay tactic (chiefly US)

delaying tactic (plural delaying tactics)

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• run out the clock
• play for time
• stall

• “delaying tactic” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “delaying tactic” (US) / “delaying tactic” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
• “delaying tactic” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “delaying tactics” (US) / “delaying tactics” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary, Macmillan Education.
• “delaying tactics” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.