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Meaning hedge meaning

What does hedge mean?
Definitions in simple English

hedge Noun

— A hedge is a plant with green leaves that has been planted in a straight line to divide a space.

hedge

— noun a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes — verb (= evade, skirt, dodge) 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 — verb enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges hedge the property — verb hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge The animals were hedged in — noun (= hedging) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement when you say 'maybe' you are just hedging — noun any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change — verb minimize loss or risk diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks hedge your bets

Synonyms hedge synonyms

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hedge English » English

fence hedging hedgerow evade enclosure wall fudge dodge barrier parry paling hinder duck circumvent surround stall skirt sidestep put off palisade hedge in fencing equivocate enclose elude delay border beat around the bush vagabond turn aside travel tour thicket tergiversate temporize tarry swan stockade shuffle shrubbery shrub secateurs rove rampart railing rail off rail in rail quick fence pruning shears

Topics hedge topics

What do people use hedge to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Bush, shrub
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Fence, wall

Conjugation hedge conjugation

How do you conjugate hedge?

hedge · verb

Examples hedge examples

How do I use hedge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The cat got through the hedge.
The gardener has just cut a hedge.
The cat crept under the hedge.
He jumped over the hedge.
The ball flew over the hedge because David hit it too hard.
Tom jumped over the hedge.

Movie subtitles

What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm? Or ladies?
Me? A hedge-robber?
There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone.
Why don't you try counting the hogs jumping over a hedge?
Someone's trespassing, there's a hole in the hedge.
You'll see her. - She came through the hedge.
She came along the meadow, and probably went through this hedge.
What am I supposed to do, hedge hop?
I'm trying to get out of this bloody hedge.
Hedge, I have naturally great confidence in you and I'll do all I can for you.
But Inspector Hedge, you wouldn't want to interfere with my work, would you?
Hedge wants a confession out of him.
Hedge, what on earth is going on here?
Hedge!
What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm?
A hedge-robber?
This man's forefathers were farming Pengallan land when yours were hedge tinkers. Next.
Because a gentleman once glanced at you doesn't entitle you to come into my presence dressed like an indecent hedge drab.
She came through the hedge. - Every night.
Harry's connection to Hedge's amendment.
Will you talk to him about the hedge?
Hedge, I have naturally great confidence in you and I'll do all I can for you. - But it's getting more and more difficult.
Thank you. - Hedge, what on earth is going on here?
Where's Inspector Hedge?
This man's forefathers were farming Pengallan land when yours were hedge tinkers.
Just a garden and a high hedge.
The edges of the area are as well-defined as that hedge there.
They disappeared through a hole in a hedge.
Hedge junction, 4:00, bushy top tree.
You must seize joy like hedge roses in the light of the moon, before an icy winter comes and sweeps us away like leaves in the wind.
Why hedge?
There's a big hedge I'd better not accompany you.
I'd be crawling behind that hedge like vermin, trying to catch you rats imitating my mental deficiencies.
The black and yellow pickup on the radio! The Hedge-face dude!

News and current affairs

If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
That is why it is important to maintain some flexibility, to allow currently unregulated institutions like hedge funds and private-equity funds to be swept into the regulatory net if they become large and systemically important.
Third, foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds may be keen to keep buying up euros to hedge against risks to the US and their own economies.
For years, foreign governments complained about American hedge funds, arguing that their non-transparent behavior posed unacceptable risks to stability.
In other words, in a G-Zero world, an increasingly aggressive global environment makes the US all the more appealing to countries seeking to hedge their bets. As a result, the US has an opportunity to act more precisely in its own interests.
There are anecdotes about individual hedge-fund managers moving to Geneva.
This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.
On the contrary, you will seek to hedge your bets by ensuring that citizenship is constituted by individual rights of participation in collective projects, backed up by a legal system that guarantees these rights.
After all, steel companies have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of iron ore, just as airlines and utilities have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of oil.
But the tools needed to hedge such risks should be made available to everyone.
Insurance companies and mortgage companies ought to be willing to offer such products if they can hedge the home-price risks in liquid derivative markets.
Aside from its implications for different national systems, the future shape of banking is critical to the broader financial system, including venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.
But, with the advent of debt securitization, creditors have become far more numerous, and include hedge funds and other investors over whom regulators and governments have little sway.
And if you are really worried about that, gold might indeed be the most reliable hedge.
Sure, some might argue that inflation-indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold.
At the same time, Meles courted China as both an investor and as a hedge against the West's criticism of his human-rights record.
Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for traders while depriving the real economy of productive investment and job creation.
Thus, both seek to hedge their bets, and what better way to do so than by improving their strategic relationship?
Even as Vietnam moves closer to the US as a hedge against China's muscular strategy, some Vietnamese leaders fear that the Americans remain committed to regime change.
Reserve managers do not have the high-powered financial incentives of hedge fund managers to seek to maximize returns.
On one side was the American model, with a variety of regulated banks, lightly regulated investment banks, and largely unregulated hedge funds managing the capital flows.
An alternative for some commodity exporters is to hedge their risk by selling on the futures market.

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