hedge

[jedch] Bakod

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[jédch-ro] Mga punong kahoy na nakabakod

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[jedch] Bakuran

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a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

Source: WordNet 3.0

any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

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an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

• When you say `maybe' you are just hedging.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

Source: Webster 1913

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.

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hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

• The animals were hedged in.

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enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

• Hedge the property.

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minimize loss or risk

• Diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks.
• Hedge your bets.

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To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

Source: Webster 1913

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

Source: Webster 1913