waiting game

waiting game
    n 1: a strategy of delay
    

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "waiting game":
      a wise passiveness, acceptance, contemplation, contemplative life,
      do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
      endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude,
      idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, indulgence,
      inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism,
      lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity,
      meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
      nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
      nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
      passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
      patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, policy,
      procrastination, quiescence, quietism, self-control, stagnancy,
      stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stoicism, sufferance,
      sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, vegetation,
      vita contemplativa, waiting it out, watching and waiting