Cover and Offset

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Cover

Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.

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Offset is a synonym for cover in pay for topic. In some cases you can use "Offset" instead a verb "Cover", when it comes to topics like cost, compensate, insure.

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Offset

Offset verb - To balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective.

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Cover is a synonym for offset in cost topic. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Offset", if it concerns topics such as pay for.

Nearby Word: offsetting

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compensate

Common collocations

cost	cover cost	offset cost
body	cover body	offset body
amount	cover amount	offset amount
fact	cover fact	offset fact
Other words: game, damage, costs, weaknesses.

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The aesop is illustrated when near the end of the war a Nazi friend tells him he knew the protagonist was a spy but never reported him because whatever damage he did as a spy would be more than offset by the help he was giving the Nazis in his cover role.

Source: Literature / Mother Night
At one point, Brandon looked through the binoculars with the lens cover still on one side, and a single circular frame, offset to one side of the screen, was shown.

Source: Series / The Amazing Race
It also toyed with it a bit: as one racer looked through the binoculars with the lens cover still on one side, just one circular frame, offset to one side of the screen, was shown.

Source: Binocular Shot

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