No occasion for generosity in the interim? (8)
I believe the answer is:
meantime
'the interim?' is the definition.
(meantime is a kind of interim)
'no occasion for generosity' is the wordplay.
'no' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation).
'occasion' becomes 'time' (I've seen this before).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'generosity' becomes 'mea' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'n'+'time'='ntime'
'ntime' after 'mea' is 'MEANTIME'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meantime that I've seen before include "For the moment" , "Intervening period" , "interim?" , "interval" .)