0 a line of bushes or small trees planted very close together, especially along the edge of a garden, field, or road:
a privet hedge
1 a way of protecting, controlling, or limiting something:
She'd made some overseas investments as a hedge against rising inflation in this country.
2 a word or phrase that makes what you say less strong
3 to limit something severely:
We've got permission, but it's hedged about/around with strict conditions.
4 a line of bushes or small trees planted close together, esp. along the edge of a yard or road
5 a means of protection, control, or limitation:
7 an investment made in order to reduce the risk of losing money on shares, bonds, etc. that you own, for example, by buying futures (= agreements to sell shares for a particular price at a date in the future) or options (= the rights to buy or sell shares for a particular price within a particular time period):
8 to reduce the risk of losing money on shares, bonds, etc. that you own, for example by buying futures (= agreements to sell shares for a particular price at a date in the future) or options (= the rights to buy or sell shares for a particular price within a particular time period):
European airports have been attracting investors keen to hedge long-term pension liabilities.
We don't tend to hedge at all - in either stock or bond funds.
hedge against sth Companies can hedge against currency movements, but many choose not to.
hedge risk/exposure Airbus has hedged enough of its dollar exposure that a major short-term impact is unlikely.
9 to reduce the risk of failure or of losing money by making sure that you can choose between different possibilities:
She kicked the ball so powerfully that it flew over the hedge.
I was sitting in the garden when suddenly my neighbour's head bobbed up from behind the hedge.
The limited available evidence suggests that, while there is a positive correlation between inflation and salaries, neither is well hedged by equities.
The narrowing margins in these products in turn reduced the cost of hedging barrier options.
Table 3 shows the data for hedges that resulted in statistical significance.
Most notably, younger female speakers use hedges often.
Furthermore, our prototype implementation of an equivalence-checker for hedged bisimilarity also profits from the minimality requirements of hedged bisimilarity.
In the present corpus of spoken discourse, we find only 14% of ke9ilu tokens functioning as hedges.
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