hedge

noun

1. 1.

   finance

   Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

2. 2.

   An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

3. 3.

   A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

4. 4.

   A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

5. 5.

   ukirelandattributivefigurative

   With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate, poor, shoddy.

verb

1. 1.

   transitivefinance

   To offset the risk associated with.

2. 2.

   intransitivefinance

   To reduce one's exposure to risk.

3. 3.

   transitive

   To obstruct or surround.

4. 4.

   Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

5. 5.

   intransitive

   To construct or repair a hedge.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

• hedgingnounInflected form

  Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• hedge maplenounCompound term

  Shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge.

• hedge mustardnounCompound term

  Stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers.

• hedge nettlenounCompound term

  Perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere.

• hedge pinknounCompound term

  Plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised.

• hedge sparrownounCompound term

  Small brownish European songbird.

• hedge thornnounCompound term

  South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit.