straddle
v.v. to sit or stand with your legs wide apart. It can also mean to be in a position that covers two different things at once, like two different ideas or two different markets.
v. to sit or stand with the legs wide apart; to be in a position that spans two distinct entities or concepts. Often used in financial contexts to describe a position that benefits from price movements in both directions.
The horseman straddled his horse and looked at the valley.
The company decided to straddle both the luxury and the budget markets to maximize its reach.
By straddling the fence between traditional manufacturing and digital innovation, the firm managed to survive the economic downturn while its competitors struggled to adapt.
As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.