1 a way of controlling or limiting a loss or risk:
This type of hedging protects the trader from getting a margin call, as the second position will gain if the first loses, and vice versa.
They posted improved profits helped by successful foreign currency hedging.
You can protect yourself against future rises in interest rates by means of a hedging instrument known as a forward rate agreement.
Agnosticism is often seen as a kind of halfway house between faith and disbelief, a hedging of bets.
This could be seen as more hedging of bets by the electorate.
2 bushes or small trees planted very close together, especially along the edges of a garden, field, or road:
3 the activity of reducing 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):
After years of hedging, officials have admitted low levels of plutonium and other radioactive contaminants in the site's groundwater.
Typical politicians never answer questions, always repeat themselves, and say nothing without a lot of hedging.
When the price of gas spiked, they would have lost money on one end, and made it on the other end, which is what hedging is all about.
Without hedging, at current exchange rates the company would lose about €2bn this year.
These short investments have served as a useful hedging tool during periods of dramatic market decline.
There are long rows of vegetables protected by box hedging.
Formal clipped hedging makes excellent screening and reduces noise from busy roads.
Tents and caravans have fully serviced gravel pitches with neat hedging.
