Definitions for hedge
hɛdʒhedge

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1. hedge, hedgerownoun

   a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

2. hedge, hedgingnoun

   any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

3. hedge, hedgingverb

   an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

   "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

4. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   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. hedgeverb

   hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

   "The animals were hedged in"

6. hedge, hedge inverb

   enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

   "hedge the property"

7. hedgeverb

   minimize loss or risk

   "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

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1. Hedgeverb

   To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.

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1. hedgenoun

   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.

   He trims the hedge once a week.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

2. hedgenoun

   A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

3. hedgenoun

   Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

   The asset class acts as a hedge.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

4. hedgenoun

   Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

5. hedgeverb

   To enclose.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

6. hedgeverb

   To obstruct.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

7. hedgeverb

   To offset the risk associated with.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

8. hedgeverb

   To avoid verbal commitment.

   He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

9. hedgeverb

   To construct or repair a hedge.

   Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

10. hedgeverb

    To reduce one's exposure to risk.

    Etymology: From hegge, from hecg, from hagjō (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from kagʰyo-. More at haw.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Hedgenoun

   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

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

2. Hedgeverb

   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

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

3. Hedgeverb

   to obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

4. Hedgeverb

   to surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in)

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

5. Hedgeverb

   to surround so as to prevent escape

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

6. Hedgeverb

   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

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

7. Hedgeverb

   to reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

8. Hedgeverb

   to use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite

   Etymology: [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. 12. See Haw a hedge.]

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1. Hedge

   A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and tree species, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area. Hedges used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another, and of sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows. It is also a simple form of topiary.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Hedge

   hej, n. a thicket of bushes: a fence round a field, &c.: any means of protection.—v.t. to enclose with a hedge: to obstruct: to surround: to guard: to protect one's self from loss by betting on both sides.—v.i. to shuffle: to be shifty: to skulk.—ns. Hedge′bill, Hedg′ing-bill, a bill or hatchet for dressing hedges.—adj. Hedge′-born, of low birth, as if born under a hedge or in the woods: low: obscure.—ns. Hedge′bote, an old word for the right of a tenant to cut wood on the farm or land for repairing the hedges or fences; Hedge′-creep′er, a sneaking rogue; Hedge′hog, a small prickly-backed quadruped, so called from living in hedges and bushes, and its resemblance to a hog or pig; Hedge′hog-plant, a species of medick, having the pods spirally twisted and rolled up into a ball beset with spines; Hedge′hog-this′tle, hedgehog-cactus; Hedge′-hyss′op, a European perennial plant of the figwort family, with emetic and purgative qualities; Hedge′-knife, an instrument for trimming hedges; Hedge′-mar′riage, a clandestine marriage; Hedge′-mus′tard, a genus of plants of order Cruciferæ, annual or rarely perennial, with small yellow or white flowers; Hedge′-note, a valueless literary attempt; Hedge′-par′son, a mean parson, generally illiterate; Hedge′pig (Shak.), a young hedgehog; Hedge′-priest, an ignorant itinerant priest; Hedg′er, one who dresses hedges; Hedge′row, a row of trees or shrubs for hedging fields; Hedge′-school, an open-air school kept by the side of a hedge in Ireland; Hedge′-shrew, the field-mouse; Hedge′-sparr′ow, Hedge′-war′bler, a little singing bird, like a sparrow, which frequents hedges; Hedge′-writ′er, a Grub-street author; Hedg′ing, the work of a hedger.—adj. Hedg′y. [A.S. hecg, hegg; Dut. hegge, Ger. hecke.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. HEDGE

   A fence. HEDGEHOG One who hogs the fences. A Bill-Poster.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hedge

   To surround for defense; to fortify; to guard; to protect; to hem. To surround so as to prevent escape.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hedge

   A type of cultivar, plant or seed.

   As part of the landscape development contracts there was the planting of hedge.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Enclose
   • Fence
   • Hem In
   • Minimize
   • Protection

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hedge' in Nouns Frequency: #2219

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hedge in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hedge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hedge in a Sentence

1. Osram Chief Executive Olaf Berlien:

   It appears that a number of hedge funds have acquired shares with the aim of selling them at a later date and at a higher price.

2. Brad Balter:

   Hedge funds do love the crowded names and the bigger a fund gets, the more likely it is we see them in common names.

3. David Mooney:

   We had about 16 large hedge funds trading natural gas in Houston a few years ago, that number is now reduced to a small number of managers.

4. J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds":

   To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

5. Robert Dobrzycki:

   We are building German-driven e-commerce buildings in central Europe. On top of that we see a huge trend of investors outside the region trying to diversify and hedge against a slow-down in other real estate sectors.

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