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cover shorts

cover shorts verb: to buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc.

Verb

cover shorts (third-person singular simple present covers shorts, present participle covering shorts, simple past and past participle covered shorts)

  1. To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc.

Forms of cover shorts

third-person singular presentcovers shorts
present participlecovering shorts
past participlecovered shorts
pastcovered shorts

Questions about cover shorts

What does cover shorts mean?
Cover shorts means to buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc.
What part of speech is cover shorts?
Cover shorts is a verb.
What is the past tense of cover shorts?
The past tense of cover shorts is covered shorts.

Words near cover shorts in the dictionary

  1. cover points
  2. cover price
  3. cover prices
  4. cover sand
  5. cover sands
  6. cover shorts
  7. cover slide
  8. cover slides
  9. cover slip
  10. cover slips
  11. cover someone's ass

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