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Hedge - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Alter, Bar, Bicker, Boggle, Bound, Boundary, Cage, Calculation

The word hedge is used in three quite different contexts:

  • In gardening and agriculture, a hedge or hedgerow is a boundary formed by growing plants so that their limbs intertwine. This is the original meaning of the word.
  • In gambling and finance, a hedge is a bet or investment taken to reduce loss if another bet or investment turns out unfavourably.
  • In linguistics, hedges are intentionally non-comittal or ambiguous sentence fragments, such as "sort of" or "kind of".
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