Definitions for hedge

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hedge hedge

Spelling: [hej]

IPA: /hɛdʒ/

Hedge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in hedge (deegh).

Definitions for hedge

noun

1. a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow:
2. any barrier or boundary:
3. an act or means of preventing complete loss of a bet, an argument, an investment, or the like, with a partially counterbalancing or qualifying one.

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose with or separate by a hedge:
2. to surround and confine as if with a hedge; restrict (often followed by in, about, etc.):
3. to protect with qualifications that allow for unstated contingencies or for withdrawal from commitment:
4. to mitigate a possible loss by counterbalancing (one's bets, investments, etc.).
5. to prevent or hinder free movement; obstruct:

verb (used without object)

1. to avoid a rigid commitment by qualifying or modifying a position so as to permit withdrawal:
2. to prevent complete loss of a bet by betting an additional amount or amounts against the original bet.
3. Finance. to enter transactions that will protect against loss through a compensatory price movement.

Origin of hedge

before 900; Middle English, Old English hegge; cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke hedge, Old Norse heggr bird cherry

Examples for hedge

Whose cow is that at the top of the ditch, half through my hedge?

When the horn was sounded, he merely drew into the hedge and did not look round.

Dunham makes fun of herself only so that she can then hedge and embrace an authoritative role.

They heard only a crashing of boughs, the parting of the hedge.

A thrush sat in the hedge, and she was singing her morning song.

In 1998, when the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management blew up, the New York Fed helped organize a $3.65 billion bailout.

But he is clearly focused on big picture social and political issues than he is on running money in his hedge fund.

“Diversification” is a hedge fund wife eschewing a Lily Pulitzer tote bag in favor of one made by Sloane Ranger or Jonathan Adler.

She looked at him for a few moments, and then she threw the sally rod into the hedge.

I used to work at an elite Manhattan hedge fund that recruited almost exclusively from the Ivy League and its equivalents.