Usually means: Strategy of delaying for advantage.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. waiting game: Merriam-Webster
  2. waiting game: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waiting game: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waiting game: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waiting game: Vocabulary.com
  6. waiting game: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. waiting game: Wiktionary
  8. waiting game: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. waiting game: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. waiting game: Dictionary.com
  11. The Waiting Game (Tina Brooks album), The Waiting Game (Una Healy album), The Waiting Game (film), The Waiting Game (game show), Waiting Game (Banks song), Waiting Game (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. waiting game: Rhymezone
  13. waiting game: FreeDictionary.org
  14. waiting game: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. waiting game: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. waiting game: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Waiting Game, waiting game: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (waiting game)

noun:  (idiomatic) A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.

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