hedge🔊

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

(UK, Ireland) Figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

To obstruct or surround.

(finance) To offset the risk associated with.

To avoid verbal commitment.

To construct or repair a hedge.

(finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.