Someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time.

synonym: temporiser.

Roget 943: selfishness etc. adj.; self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre [Fr.], etc. (vanity) 880; nepotism.    worldliness etc. adj.; world wisdom.    illiberality; meanness etc. adj.. time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi [Lat.], foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer.    ... show more