hedge

IPA: hˈɛdʒ

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
(UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
A surname.

Examples of "hedge" in Sentences

Hedge fund's Greek gamble pays off.
Corolini is also an ally of the necromancer Hedge.
This may be useful to determine the age of the hedge.
For the rest of the series, she is a servant of Hedge.
I stole by the hedge where the blackbird and thrush are.
All of this to collect the Salt Tax at gaps in the hedge.
Another variant of the flame fougasse was the hedge hopper.
These hedges use a metal armature, to prefigure the mature hedge.
The hedge in the backgroound was intended to screen the greenhouses.
The unmistakable message is that investment in the meretricious hedge fund industry is best left to hedge fund managers themselves.