hedge.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
He trims the hedge once a week.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
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.
A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.
With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw.
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To obstruct or surround.
To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
To construct or repair a hedge.
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).
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