TEMPORIZER

temporizer. Temporizer, n. a timeserver, trimmer, turncoat

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Tem″po‐ri′zer (?), n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.