Tide-over Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To support or sustain someone, especially financially, for a limited period.

Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?
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Tide-over Sentence Examples

  • Thus the possession of a superior sea-power enabled Denmark to tide over her worst difficulties, and in May 162 9 Christian was able to conclude peace with the emperor at Lubeck, without any diminution of territory.

  • Reactionary as the measure was it enabled the agricultural interest, on which the prosperity of Denmark mainly depended, to tide over one of the most dangerous crises in its history; but certainly the position of the Danish peasantry was never worse than during the reign of the religious and benevolent Christian VI.

  • The wages were never high enough to enable the journeyman weaver to tide over periods of unemployment.

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