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English to English noun
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a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes |  | source: wordnet30
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any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | | source: wordnet30
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an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | | Example: when you say `maybe' you are just hedging
source: wordnet30
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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. | | source: webster1913 verb
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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | | Example: He dodged the issue
she skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
he evaded the questions skillfully
source: wordnet30
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hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | | Example: The animals were hedged in
source: wordnet30
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enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | | Example: hedge the property
source: wordnet30
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minimize loss or risk | | Example: diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks
hedge your bets
source: wordnet30
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To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden. | | source: webster1913
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To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations. | | source: webster1913
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