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- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe'' you are just hedging"
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"
- 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"
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in"
Similar Words: hedgerow,
hedging,
fudge,
evade,
put off,
circumvent,
parry,
elude,
skirt,
dodge,
duck,
sidestep,
hedge in
Hyponyms: privet hedge,
windbreak,
shelterbelt,
quibble
Grouped Verbs: hedge in
Derivational Morphology:
fudge,
evade,
put off,
circumvent,
parry,
elude,
skirt,
dodge,
duck,
sidestep,
hedger,
dodging,
scheme,
dodger,
fox,
slyboots,
avoidance,
turning away,
shunning,
evasion,
escape,
circumvention,
hedging,
equivocator
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