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Definition of 'Hedge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hedge
a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, esp. when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow.

2.  hedge
any barrier or boundary.

3.  hedge
an act or means of hedging:
to buy gold as a hedge against inflation.

4.  hedge
a qualifying or noncommittal statement.

5. (v.t.) hedge
to enclose with or separate by a hedge.

6.  hedge
to surround and confine or obstruct as if with a hedge:
I felt hedged in by the rules.

7.  hedge
to mitigate a possible loss by counterbalancing (one's bets, investments, etc.).

8.  hedge
to evade or qualify so as to avoid commitment or allow for contingencies:
to hedge a question.

9. (v.i.) hedge
to avoid commitment, esp. by qualifying or evasive statements.

10.  hedge
to prevent complete loss of a bet by betting an additional amount against the original bet.

11.  hedge
to enter transactions intended to protect against financial loss through a compensatory price movement.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE hegge, c. MD hegghe, OHG hegga, hecka hedge, ON heggr bird cherry)

Definition of 'Hedge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hedge, hedgerow
a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

2. (noun) hedge, hedging
any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

3. (verb) hedge, hedging
an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
"when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

4. (verb) hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

5. (verb) hedge
hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
"The animals were hedged in"

6. (verb) hedge, hedge in
enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
"hedge the property"

7. (verb) hedge
minimize loss or risk
"diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

Definition of 'Hedge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) hedge
bushes grown close together around the edge of an area of land

Definition of 'Hedge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Hedge
a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden

2. (verb) Hedge
to inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden

3. (verb) Hedge
to obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out

4. (verb) Hedge
to surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in)

5. (verb) Hedge
to surround so as to prevent escape

6. (verb) Hedge
to shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations

7. (verb) Hedge
to reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on

8. (verb) Hedge
to use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite

Translation of 'Hedge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a line of bushes etc planted so closely together that their branches form a solid mass, grown round the edges of gardens, fields etc.
Afrikaans: heining, laning	Arabic: سِياج من شُجيْرات	Bulgarian: плет
Brazilian: sebe	Czech: živý plot	German: die Hecke
Danish: hæk	Greek: φράχτης από θάμνους	Spanish: seto
Estonian: hekk	Farsi: پرچين	Finnish: pensasaita
French: haie	Hebrew: גַדֵר חָיָה	Hindi: बाड़ा
Croatian: živica, ograda	Hungarian: élősövény	Indonesian: pagar hidup
Icelandic: limgerði	Italian: siepe	Japanese: かきね
Korean: 산울타리	Lithuanian: gyvatvorė	Latvian: dzīvžogs
Malay: pagar pokok renek	Dutch: heg	Norwegian: hekk
Polish: żywopłot	Persian: پرچين	Pashto: د بوټو او كوچنيو ونو كيړ
Portuguese: sebe	Romanian: gard viu	Russian: живая изгородь
Slovak: živý plot	Slovenian: živa meja	Serbian: živa ograda
Swedish: häck	Thai: แนวพุ่มไม้	Turkish: çalı çit
Taiwanese: 樹籬	Ukrainian: живопліт	Urdu: جھاڑیوں کی باڑ
Vietnamese: bờ giậu	Chinese: 篱笆，树篱
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