gain time (verb) delay: cause stop in action
Detalii: various things may cause a delay, but a postponement will result from the action of a person
Sinonime: at first, at the outset, at the start,
basically, by birth, by origin,
first,
formerly, in the beginning, in the first place, incipiently,
primarily, primitively, to begin with
Antonime: secondarily