'Hedging' definitions:
Definition of 'hedging'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Hedging'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out. [1913 Webster]
- I will hedge up thy way with thorns. --Hos. ii. 6. [1913 Webster]
- Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). "England, hedged in with the main." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To surround so as to prevent escape. [1913 Webster]
- That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- 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]. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hedging'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allowance,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- calculation,
- canniness,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- caviling,
- cession,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- circumscription,
- circumspection,
- concession,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- discretion,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fencing,
- gingerliness,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- guardedness,
- hairsplitting,
- hedge,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- judiciousness,
- limitation,
- logic-chopping,
- mental reservation,
- mindfulness,
- modification,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pawkiness,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- prior consultation,
- prudence,
- prudentialness,
- pussyfooting,
- qualification,
- quibbling,
- regardfulness,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- salvo,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slowness to act,
- solicitude,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- subterfuge,
- tentativeness,
- tergiversation,
- thoroughness,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- waiver
Words containing 'Hedging'
- Hedge,
- Hedged,
- hedge in,
- Hedge bells,
- Hedge bill,
- Hedge bindweed,
- Hedge fund,
- Hedge garlic,
- Hedge hyssop,
- Hedge marriage,
- Hedge mustard,
- Hedge nettle,
- Hedge note,
- Hedge parsley,
- Hedge priest,
- Hedge school,
- Hedge sparrow,
- Hedge writer,
- Hedging bill,
- Thorn hedge,
- To breast up a hedge,
- To hang in the hedge,
- To hedge a bet,
- Turf hedge,
- hedge maple,
- hedge pink,
- hedge thorn,
- hedge trimmer,
- hedge violet,
- hedge warbler,
- privet hedge,
- raddle hedge,
- Jack-by-the-hedge