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Evading decision
Answer for the clue "Evading decision ", 7 letters:
hedging
Alternative clues for the word hedging
- Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues
- Investing defensively (7)
- Uncertain bettor's activity
- Investing defensively
- Taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change and so limiting financial risk
- An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- Reducing risk, in a way
Word definitions for hedging in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hedge \Hedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hedged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hedging .] 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. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change [syn: hedge ] an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging" ...
Usage examples of hedging.
A wide ridge with - when she had a moment to look - a fantastic view of the patchwork of fields and hedging that seemed to stretch out for miles and miles into the twilight.
Proper drainage, available water, copses of vegetation used as windbreaks where the land was not arable, even the hedging that separated the fields was approved.
In the growing light of day, they could see Zainal plunging through a gap in the hedging and they altered their hell-bent pace in that direction and through to the next field.
You see so clearly what needs to be done, without any hedging and hemming.
Probably Japanese banks, they knew without asking, hedging like hell to protect themselves.
They bought these up about four months ago, hedging against the yen, and very successfully, it appears.
If that was not a fatal offense in Tabini's book, he feared it was hedging very close on one, that was one thing, and he didn't want to see a contest of power inside the administration, or Tabini using the Assassins against the Messengers.
Never mind the hedgings and fudgings, never mind the scholarly obfuscations.