Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cover the waterfront

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: cov-er the wa-ter-front
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.

Example Sentences

"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."
""I hear you," Polly said. "I do feel better, I can't help it, and I'm very grateful for it. Does that about cover the waterfront?""
"For another, whereas the pairing of “foreign” and “domestic” often covers the waterfront,... the dissent’s hypothetical pairings do not have that same effect. And unlike animals (which need not be small or doglike) or ice creams (which need not be chocolate or vanilla), every government must be foreign or domestic to some degree; the question is just where on the spectrum it falls."

Inflected Forms

covers the waterfront (present, singular) covering the waterfront (participle, present) covered the waterfront (participle, past) covered the waterfront (past)

Questions

What does cover the waterfront mean?: To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.

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