Definitions for Hedges

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Hedges hedge

Spelling: [hej]

IPA: /hɛdʒ/

Hedges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Hedges (deeghs).

Definitions for Hedges

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 Hedges

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

Examples for Hedges

This gloom, hedging him on every side, troubled him with a vague fear.

The entire phylum of what they do is called “hedging risk,” not diving into it.

I might have hedged on my own stock, but I don't believe in hedging.

The plaque honoring “la Nueve” speaks to how memory is often overlaid by the hedging of history.

The death of an uncle and a hedging competition are processed and recounted in due course.

Some men were engaged in hedging, when they had to cut down some old trees.

But as for that, signore, if you have no axes nor hedging knives, we have them.

He was hedging because he thought he had gone too far, but she appeared not to notice it.

Netanyahu has been eager to take credit for Iran's hedging of its stockpiles.

Karl Rove says Romney has the edge in the overall vote on Election Day and in his hedging way seemed to predict a Romney triumph.