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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151 They were standing in the lee of a hedge in the corner of an oil-seed field.
152 I was found asleep under a hedge, a partly sampled bottle still clutched protectively in my hands.
153 The wood for the hedge arrived not on the backs of the hedge-builders but in the boot of their Ford Cortina.
154 She had a ferocious hedge of hair on her upper lip, practically a mustache.
155 As fractional contracts can not be written it is almost inevitable that the hedge will not be perfect.
156 To encourage a fuller hedge, increase the organic matter in the soil, water, then mulch to conserve soil moisture.
157 The dog darted through an opening in the hedge, chasing a rabbit.
158 Pat Hayes, a 10-year plant veteran at the age of 30, has already begun to hedge her bets.
159 I watched from under the hedge when one day two big black cars came.
160 Any coarse greenstuff such as cabbage roots, hedge trimmings, etc. should be chopped up to avoid large air pockets.
161 This allows the construction of a riskless hedge in which the pay-offs are the same regardless of the outcome.
162 There are a mango tree, a passion fruit tree and an orange tree, and a lovely hibiscus hedge.
163 The same is true, to some extent, with hedge funds.
164 The cart-track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
165 From the other side of the hedge came the wild barking of hounds.
166 Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
167 We've planted every kind of native tree you could think of in a hedge, including crab apple and wayfarer tree.
168 After they had eaten and sunbathed a little, they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries.
169 We lurched toward the boxwood hedge and crouched behind it.
170 Whilst cutting her garden hedge with a chainsaw one recent summer, a woman slipped and lost her grip.
171 We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge.
172 In order to eliminate price exposure on other precious metal stocks we hedge the price wherever possible by forward sales.
173 Sighing(sentencedict.com), he came to a halt and leaned back against the hedge they were passing.
174 He sat at the desk in the study staring into the hedge at the rear of Baxter Park, unseeing.
175 Rising bad loans could conceivably bring down an insurer or a hedge fund with little or no warning.
176 They are more likely, in fact, to buy cash pesetas, in order to hedge their put options.
177 Their ideas could be expropriated as freely and easily as blackberries from a hedge in summer.
178 Futures and options markets began when tankers tried to hedge against the great uncertainty of weather and agricultural markets.
179 Dooley made popcorn, and Barnabas did his business at the hedge with great expediency.
180 In the 1970s, officials kept water in storage as a hedge against droughts.