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doc Definition of hedge
    English to English
    noun
  • a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
  • source: WordNet 3.0
  • any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
  • source: WordNet 3.0
  • an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
  • When you say `maybe' you are just hedging.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • 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.
  • source: Webster 1913
    verb
  • avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • He dodged the issue.
    She skirted the problem.
    They tend to evade their responsibilities.
    He evaded the questions skillfully.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
  • The animals were hedged in.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
  • Hedge the property.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • minimize loss or risk
  • Diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks.
    Hedge your bets.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • 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.
  • source: Webster 1913
  • 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.
  • source: Webster 1913
    English to Tagalog
    noun
  • [jedch] Bakod
  • source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
  • [jédch-ro] Mga punong kahoy na nakabakod
  • source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
    verb
  • [jedch] Bakuran
  • source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
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