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.
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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121 The beech hedge is trying to set an example by maturing.
122 When working with a hedge trimmer, run the supply cable over one shoulder well away from the blades.
123 Follow the path which heads away from the water beside a laurel hedge, and on to a gravelled road.
124 Suddenly a small group of deer jump out from the other side of a hedge.
125 It didn't leap that last hedge: it just munched its way through.
126 I watched him as far as the corner of the curator's garden, and saw him turn in alongside the hedge.
127 Billy's cottage was set back off the road, behind a neat little hedge.
128 Staying close to the wooden wall, he crept along between the shed and the hedge.
129 However, as this is a riskless hedge the investor should expect to receive the riskless rate of return.
130 Firms that provide these swaps often buy or sell U. S. Treasuries to hedge the risk of sudden swings in interest rates.
131 Where receivables in a particular currency are sufficiently large, an exporter could consider using a Currency Option to hedge an exposure.
132 Over the years, a prickly briar hedge grew up along the castle, which no one could penetrate.
133 These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out.
134 Hiding in the hedge a safe distance from the truck, she waited for the man to appear.
135 The big mutual fund suffered late last year from the same mistakes that hurt the hedge fund.
136 Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path.
137 A thick hedge shielded her from the field which swept down towards the foot of the embankment.
138 He came back to his car, parked inconspicuously on the grass by the privet hedge, shortly before half past ten.
139 A rose hedge can become a useful, impenetrable barrier if clipped regularly.
140 A band of yellowhammer, bright as celandines, fly between field and hedge.
141 Still, it always is wise to hedge our bets about the future.
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142 Or did they spontaneously manifest themselves, like the foam of a wave or the bloom on a country hedge in spring?
143 Firms that provide swaps buy or sell U. S. Treasuries to hedge against sudden interest rate shifts.
144 I squeezed through a hole in the hedge into the garden.
145 They are also a good hedge against all the political and economic uncertainties raging in Britain this Guy Fawkes week.
146 But in a multicurrency society, the citizens could hedge away from such trickery.
147 Quickly, head low, he ducked behind the hedge and walked in a crouch to the bushes.
148 Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken.
149 In fact, many buy snow insurance as a hedge against extreme weather.
150 The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses.