Synonym: border, borderline, boundary, dodge, duck, limit, sidestep. Similar words: edge, pledge, ledger, pledged, knowledge, acknowledge, general ledger, acknowledgement. Meaning: [hedʒ] n. 1. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes 2. any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change 3. an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement. v. 1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) 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 4. minimize loss or risk.
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2 Buying a house is the best hedge against inflation.
3 Buying a house will be a hedge against inflation.
4 A hedge between keeps friendship green.
5 He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge.
6 She hacked at the hedge with the shears.
7 The hedge needs pruning back.
8 Along the river bank there is a hedge.
9 To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
10 She'd made some overseas investments as a hedge against rising inflation in this country.
11 To hedge about a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
12 A hedge forms the division between her land and mine.
13 The hedge needs a trim.
14 You can hedge against redundancy or illness with insurance.
15 Buying gold may be a hedge against inflation.
16 The hedge takes up too much space .
17 Armed police lay in ambush behind the hedge.
18 There was a high hedge verging the yard.
19 He gave the hedge a clip.
20 A wattled hedge surrounds the house.
21 The garden was enclosed by a privet hedge.
22 We sat in the lee of a tall hedge.
23 Give the hedge a clip.
24 Doyle crouched behind a hedge.
27 When you have made a bad bet, it is best to hedge off.
28 The neighbors' dog got in through a gap in the hedge.
29 Under planning law the maximum height for a fence or hedge is 2 metres.
30 The sheep got into the field through a gap in the hedge.