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Hedging

noun

1.

Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change. Synonym: hedge.

2.

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement. Synonym: hedge.

Hedge

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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"Hedging" Quotes from Famous Books

... We unmasked it, and Ferguson fired. I had expected the other side to act stupidly, but I had not hoped for such stupidity as they exhibited. Burbank's year of bathing in presidential flatteries and of fawning on and cringing to the multi-millionaires and their agents hedging him around, had so wrought upon him that he had wholly lost his point of view. And he let his Attorney General pooh-pooh the proceedings,—this in face of the great popular excitement and enthusiasm. It was not until Roebuck's lawyers got far enough into the case against ...

— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... to the race of giants who have made our Nation what it is to-day. We owe a debt to the unflinching dignity and honesty of his mind. He made hedging, trimming and compromise impossible—the issues which divided us of Life and Death. A weaker man would have wavered and we should have had to fight our battles over again. They have ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... Apollo passed toward the sacred wood, 240 Which from the inmost depths of its green glen Echoes the voice of Neptune,—and there stood On the same spot in green Onchestus then That same old animal, the vine-dresser, Who was employed hedging his ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... supposed by Mr. Marsh to be a corruption of the old word "haydogtime," {34} a word signifying a country dance. It seems that when the tenants were called on to perform work in hedging, reaping, or hay-making, upon the lands of the lord of the manor, in lieu of money rent he was bound to feed them through the day, and generally to conclude with a merry-making. So, no doubt, it had been in the good old days of the bishops and the much loved and lamented John Bowland; but ...

— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge

... upon me by Mr. Sewell, who let slip no opportunity to testify his disapprobation of the intimacy, Mr. Jaffrey and I spent all our evenings together—those long autumnal evenings, through the length of which he talked about the boy, laying out his path in life and hedging the path with roses. He should be sent to the High School at Portsmouth, and then to college; he should be educated like a ...

— Miss Mehetabel's Son • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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