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tideover

tideover adjective: designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.

Adjective

tideover (not comparable)

  1. Designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.
    • a tideover allowance

Origin of tideover

Deverbal from tide over.

Questions about tideover

What does tideover mean?
Tideover means designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.
What part of speech is tideover?
Tideover is an adjective.

Words near tideover in the dictionary

  1. tidemark
  2. tidemarks
  3. tidemill
  4. tidemills
  5. Tidenham
  6. tideover
  7. tidepool
  8. tidepooling
  9. tidepools
  10. tider
  11. tiderace

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