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Hedging

Hedge \Hedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hedged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hedging.]

  1. 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.

  2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

    I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
    --Hos. ii. 6.

    Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north.
    --Milton.

  3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). ``England, hedged in with the main.''
    --Shak.

  4. To surround so as to prevent escape.

    That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo.
    --Locke.

  5. To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.

    To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss. See hedge[5].

Wiktionary
hedging

n. The act of one who hedges (in various senses). vb. (present participle of hedge English)

WordNet
hedging

  1. 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]

  2. an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging" [syn: hedge]

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.