HEDGE
\hˈɛd͡ʒ], \hˈɛdʒ], \h_ˈɛ_dʒ]\
Definitions of HEDGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
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a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
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minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"
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enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"
By Princeton University
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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
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a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
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To surround so as to prevent escape.
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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.
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To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
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To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
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To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
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To surround so as to prevent escape.
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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.
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To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
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To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
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To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.
By Noah Webster.
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A fence of bushes or shrubs.
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To inclose with a border of bushes or shrubs; encircle; invest.
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Evade; skulk.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A thicket of bushes: a fence round a field, etc.
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To inclose with a hedge: to obstruct: to surround: to guard.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make one bet to offset another; provide a means of escape.
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A fence formed by bushes set close together.
By James Champlin Fernald