tide over
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
To provide someone with what they need to get through a difficult period, especially a temporary shortage of money.
A small advance on my salary should tide me over until the end of the month.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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