hedge
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English hegge, from Old English hecg, from Proto-Germanic *hagjaz (compare Dutch heg, German Hecke), from Proto-Indo-European *kaghi̯on. More at haw.
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[edit] Noun
Wikipedia hedge (plural hedges)
- 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.
- He trims the hedge once a week.
- 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).
- The asset class acts as a hedge.
- (UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.2:
- Attalus [...] made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge-harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
- 1899, Henry Rider Haggard, A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898[1], page 222:
- This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own, […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Folio Society 1973, p. 639:
- He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.2:
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terms derived from hedge (noun)
[edit] Translations
thicket of bushes planted in a row
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[edit] Verb
hedge (third-person singular simple present hedges, present participle hedging, simple past and past participle hedged)
- (transitive) To enclose.
- (transitive) To obstruct.
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
