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Synonyms for hedge
hɛdʒhedge

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. hedge, hedgerownoun

    a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

    Synonyms:
    hedging, hedgerow

  2. hedge, hedgingnoun

    any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

    Synonyms:
    hedging, hedgerow

  3. hedge, hedgingverb

    an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

    "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

    Synonyms:
    hedging, hedgerow

  4. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

    "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

    Synonyms:
    put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

  5. hedgeverb

    hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

    "The animals were hedged in"

    Synonyms:
    parry, circumvent, evade, elude, hedge in, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodge

  6. hedge, hedge inverb

    enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

    "hedge the property"

    Synonyms:
    parry, circumvent, evade, elude, hedge in, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodge

  7. hedgeverb

    minimize loss or risk

    "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

    Synonyms:
    parry, circumvent, evade, elude, hedge in, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodge

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hedgenoun

    Synonyms:
    fence (of bushes or shrubs), hedge-fence

  2. hedgeverb

    Synonyms:
    enclose with a hedge

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hedge":

    speculative, hedging, coverage, cover

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How to use hedge in a sentence?

  1. Donald Trump:

    I know them. They all are supporting Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, i want the hedge fund guys who pay very little -- they make a lot of money -- and a lot of it is luck. They pick a stock and all of a sudden they make a lot of money. I want the hedge fund guys to pay more taxes.

  2. Stephen Qi Jun:

    Until now, personal users could only buy fuel at the gas station and if they thought that prices were at very low levels and wanted to secure or hedge their fuel at low levels, there was no way to do that, we are launching this new innovation to help millions of consumers hedge their own consumption of fuel.

  3. Link Starbureiy:

    Dream big, then hedge.

  4. German Proverb:

    A hedge between keeps friendship green.

  5. Jeb Bush:

    Hillary and Jeb, in particular, are totally controlled by the hedge fund guys and the Wall Street guys, but hedge funds, in particular.


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