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Definition of Hedge
1. Verb. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). "He evaded the questions skillfully"
Specialized synonyms: Beg, Quibble
Generic synonyms: Avoid
Derivative terms: Circumvention, Dodge, Dodger, Dodging, Dodging, Evasion, Hedger, Hedging
2. Noun. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
Generic synonyms: Fence, Fencing
Specialized synonyms: Privet Hedge, Shelterbelt, Windbreak
3. Verb. Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge. "The animals were hedged in"
4. Noun. Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change.
5. Verb. Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges. "Hedge the property"
6. Noun. An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement. "When you say `maybe' you are just hedging"
7. Verb. Minimize loss or risk. "Hedge your bets"
Definition of Hedge
1. n. 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. v. t. 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. v. i. 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.
Definition of Hedge
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement. ¹
3. Noun. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements). ¹
4. Noun. (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. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To enclose. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To obstruct. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive finance) To offset the risk associated with. ¹
8. Verb. (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment. ¹
9. Verb. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge. ¹
10. Verb. (intransitive finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hedge
1. to surround with a hedge (a dense row of shrubs) [v HEDGED, HEDGING, HEDGES]
Medical Definition of Hedge
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1. 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.
2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; sometimes with up and out. "I will hedge up thy way with thorns." (Hos. Ii. 6) "Lollius Urbius . . . Drew another wall . . . To hedge out incursions from the north." (Milton)
3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). "England, hedged in with the main."
4. To surround so as to prevent escape. "That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo." (Locke) To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss.
Origin: Hedged; Hedging.
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. "The roughest berry on the rudest hedge." (Shak) "Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk." (Thomson)
Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.