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covering the waterfront

covering the waterfront is the present participle and gerund of cover the waterfront.

Meaning of cover the waterfront

Verb

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

  1. To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.
    • But on the other hand, we continue to see huge sales of teacher-oriented textbooks that cover the waterfront of the major facts, laws, and theories in each and every domain of science.1975, J. W. George Ivany, Today's Science

Questions about covering the waterfront

What is covering the waterfront the present participle and gerund of?
Covering the waterfront is the present participle and gerund of cover the waterfront.

Words near covering the waterfront in the dictionary

  1. covering sickness
  2. covering someone's ass
  3. covering space
  4. covering spaces
  5. covering the buckle
  6. covering the waterfront
  7. covering up
  8. coverings
  9. coverless
  10. coverlessness
  11. coverlet

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