temporize

To act or speak in order to gain time, avoid an argument, or postpone a decision.

To act to suit current circumstances or necessities.

To say or utter in temporizing.

To comply with the time or occasion, or with the desires of another; yield temporarily or ostensibly to the current of opinion or circumstances.

To parley.

To dilly-dally; delay; procrastinate.

Also spelled temporise.

To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.

To delay; to procrastinate.

To comply; to agree.