Today’s “Word of the Day” is “tide over“ and it is a phrasal verb meaning “help or support someone in difficulty (particularly with financial aid); assist, give assistance to, keep someone going, sustain, survive, see through”.
Example Sentence: Given India’s inadequate public health systems, a serious disease or malaise afflicting a single family member can push an average household into poverty. For life covers, the Council could take a more nuanced approach by extending most relief to pure term insurance policies that help families tide over shocks, rather than to myriad market-linked investment products offered by the industry in the guise of insurance. If, in the Council’s wisdom, helicopter services availed on a ‘shared seat’ basis must attract only 5% GST, insurance policies surely deserve more benign taxation too.
This word is present in Soothing salvo: On new Group of Ministers and tax changes for insurance policies and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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