to cover up losses

  • 1Cover crop — Agriculture General …

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  • 2Cover — The purchase of a contract to offset a previously established short position. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. cover cov‧er 1 [ˈkʌvə ǁ ər] noun [uncountable] 1. INSURANCE insurance against losing something or suffering damage,… …

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  • 3cover — Used to indicate the repurchase of previously sold contracts as, he covered his short position. Short covering is synonymous with liquidating a short position or evening up a short position. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary The amount above… …

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  • 4cover — 1) The security provided by insurance or assurance against a specified risk. 2) See dividend cover 3) Collateral given against a loan or credit, as in option dealing. 4) A hedge purchased to safeguard an open position 5) Money set aside from… …

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  • 5Other Losses — Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II   Author(s) …

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  • 6Days To Cover — A measurement of a company s issued shares that are currently shorted, expressed as the number of days required to close out all of the short positions. For example, if a company has average daily volume of 1 million shares and 2 million shares… …

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  • 7IRS Publication 536 - Net Operating Losses For Individuals, Estates, And Trusts — A document published by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that provides guidance to individuals who have more deductions than income in a given tax year. If the total deductions a taxpayer claims are greater than that taxpayer s income for the… …

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  • 8Workers' Compensation Catastrophe Cover — A type of loss reinsurance that is purchased by insurers of workers compensation to protect against losses that result from a single catastrophic event or a series of events involving multiple workers. Workers compensation catastrophe coverage is …

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  • 9recovered losses — produced profits that were used to cover loses incurred during previous periods …

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  • 10insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …

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