Cover

(redirected from covers the waterfront)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia.

Related to covers the waterfront: gunning for

Cover

To protect or shelter; to make good; to insure. To cover a check means to deposit sufficient funds in a bank account to pay the amount written on a check or checks.

The right of a purchaser to buy goods other than those that were originally contracted for as a remedy in the event of a breach of contract by the seller.

In contract law concerning sales transactions, the Uniform Commercial Code provides that a buyer may use cover for protection in an action for breach of a sales contract. The person may, in Good Faith, purchase substitute goods when a seller violates their contract by failure to deliver goods. The buyer may then recover the difference between the original goods or contract price and the cost of cover.

References in periodicals archive ?

the summer 2005 issue of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum is devoted almost exclusively to the topic of "computer games" and covers the waterfront, from how they're conceived and developed through how we learn from them.

Interesting times

An eclectic group: Storr happily covers the waterfront, subscribing to no Procrustean aesthetic or intellectual program.

"Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque"; SITE Santa Fe

This easy-to-read, accessible book from PC World expert Steve Bass covers the waterfront of PC gripes and gremlins, with fixes for everything from Windows glitches to browsers that won't browse.

"PC annoyances: how to fix the most annoying things about your personal computer"