HEDGE

Hedge

A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and tree species, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area. Hedges used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another, and of sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows. It is also a simple form of topiary.

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hedge

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
  3. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
  4. Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

Verb

  1. To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
    to hedge a field or garden
  2. To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
  3. To offset the risk associated with.
  4. To avoid verbal commitment.
    He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  5. To construct or repair a hedge.
  6. To reduce one's exposure to risk.


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