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HTML

<div id="wait" class="button">Wait Button</div>
<span class="infolabel">Click event bound</span>

CSS

.button {
    display: inline-block;
    color: #666;
    height: 24px;
    font-size: 9.5pt;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 22px;
    border: 0;
    padding: 0 5px;
    margin: 0;
    border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    border-radius: 4px;
    background: rgb(255,255,255); /* Old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 60%, rgba(245,245,245,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(60%,rgba(255,255,255,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(245,245,245,1))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 60%,rgba(245,245,245,1) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 60%,rgba(245,245,245,1) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 60%,rgba(245,245,245,1) 100%); /* IE10+ */
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255,255,255,1) 60%,rgba(245,245,245,1) 100%); /* W3C */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#f5f5f5',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
    box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px #fff;
    cursor: pointer;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
    //--------------------------------------------------------------
    // this is what you would need
    var waitButton = $('#wait'),
        waitButtonTimer;
    
    waitButton.on('click',function(){
        clearInterval(waitButtonTimer);
        
        waitButtonTimer = setTimeout(function(){
            waitButton.off('click');
            $('.infolabel').text('click event unbound');
        }, 4000);
        
    });
    //--------------------------------------------------------------
});