temporize

Meaning

Verb

• 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.
• To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
• To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
• To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim.
• To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.

Origin

• . Temporāre is derived from tempor-, the inflected stem of tempus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temp-, *ten-, or *temh₂-) + -āre.