hedge
IPA: hˈɛdʒ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
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