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Definition of Hedging

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

2. Noun. An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement. "When you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

Definition of Hedging

1. Verb. (present participle of hedge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hedging

1. hedge [v] - See also: hedge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedging

hedgehops hedgeless hedgelike hedgepig hedgepigs hedger hedgerow hedgerows hedgers hedges

hedges one's bets hedgie hedgier hedgies hedgiest hedging (current term) hedging one's bets hedgingly hedgings hedgy

hediondilla hedleyite hedon hedonal hedonic hedonic calculus hedonic damages hedonically hedonics hedonism

Literary usage of Hedging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Marketing of Farm Products by Louis Dwight Harvell Weld (1916)
"Dependence of hedging on Pure Speculation. — There are opponents of speculation who realize that hedging is of economic benefit, and who would so restrict ..."

2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1855)
"Having said this much on the Spring Grove hedge, I may be permitted to make a few remarks on hedging in general. More than fifty years the attention of the ..."

3. The Value of Organized Speculation by Harrison Hardy Brace (1913)
"hedging misunderstood The purpose of hedging, as before explained, ... They think, or some of them do, that the hedging deal is a separate trade and has no ..."

4. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton Exchanges by United States Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith (1908)
"The principle of hedging, it will be recalled, rests on the assumption that ... In other words, the theory of hedging is based on the assumption that the ..."

5. Foreign Exchange by Albert Conser Whitaker (1919)
"Futures, speculation, and hedging.—A sale of exchange for future delivery is a contract under which one of the parties agrees to deliver a stipulated amount ..."

6. American Problems of Reconstruction: A National Symposium on the Economic by Elisha Michael Friedman (1918)
"The Origin and Execution of a Future Contract for hedging Purposes.—Future contracts in cotton are always executed in units of 100 bales. ..."

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