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Hedge   /hɛdʒ/   Listen
Hedge

noun
1.
A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.  Synonym: hedgerow.
2.
Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change.  Synonym: hedging.
3.
An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement.  Synonym: hedging.
verb
(past & past part. hedged; pres. part. hedging)
1.
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).  Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt.  "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"
2.
Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge.
3.
Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges.  Synonym: hedge in.
4.
Minimize loss or risk.  "Hedge your bets"



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"Hedge" Quotes from Famous Books



... type of this neglect of the perfectness of the Earth's beauty, by reason of the passions of men, in that picture of Paul Uccello's of the battle of Sant' Egidio,[23] in which the armies meet on a country road beside a hedge of wild roses; the tender red flowers tossing above the helmets, and glowing beneath the lowered lances. For in like manner the whole of Nature only shone hitherto for man between the tossing of helmet-crests; and sometimes ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin
... a lot about filberts this morning. Filberts make beautiful hedges. I shouldn't advise anybody to grow a filbert hedge along the road or where it would be a temptation to people to steal. But where you wish to erect a screen to shut out an undesirable view, they make a very nice hedge. They are very pleasing as to foliage. We have a very nice crop ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... I have a motive to desire emancipation which proslavery men do not have but even they have strong enough reason to thus place themselves again under the shield of the Union, and to thus perpetually hedge against the recurrence of the scenes through which we are ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... were yards and yards of sandy passages, leading to storerooms and nut-cellars and seed-cellars, all amongst the roots of the hedge. ...
— The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse • Beatrix Potter
... it is common for a foe to hedge his adversary about so that fight he must. Thou art a woman and cunning, and lest thou join thyself to another and elude me ere the battle is on, I would better treat thee to a strategy. I shall wed thee first and woo ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller


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