Hedge

Quick meaning: Hedge is a noun meaning A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
2. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
3. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
4. (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
5. 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.
6. (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
7. (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.

Example Sentences

He trims the hedge once a week.

The asset class acts as a hedge.

He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.

When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.

Word Forms

• hedges
• hedging
• hedged

Synonyms for hedge

Depending on context, synonyms include parry, shuffle, elude, circumvent, evade, dodge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hedgerow, fudge, skirt, duck, parry, sidestep.

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