Look up: Hedge

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   Hedge
   A transaction that reduces the risk of an investment.
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   Hedge
   Suitable trees, shrubs, or bushes planted relatively close together so that the branches will intertwine to provide a barrier fence for a windbreaker or privacy. Hedges can be any height or width depending on the plant material used. Generally they are long lived species.
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   Hedge
   Is the act of protecting a position. Hedges can be either Long or Short. Hedges are often done with derivative products. A Long Hedge refers to a position whereby a derivative contract is purchased to protect against a short actual position. A Short Hedge is a position whereby a derivative is sold to protect against a long actual position.
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   Hedge
   (noun) Something that reduces the risk of future price movements.
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   Hedge
   The purchase or sale of options or futures contracts as a temporary substitute for a transaction to be made at a later date. Usually it involves opposite positions in the cash or futures or options market.
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   hedge
   A hedge is typically accomplished by making approximately offsetting transactions that will largely eliminate one or more types of risk.
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   hedge
   [n] - taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change and so limiting financial risk 2. [n] - an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement 3. [n] - a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes 4. [v] - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
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   Hedge
   A strategy that offsets or reduces investment risk. Options can be used to adopt opposite positions to that of the main holding.
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   Hedge
   A field boundary composed of shrubs such as hawthorn or blackthorn dense enough to keep livestock in the field and provide shelter. Hedges require regular maintenance to prevent them becoming sparse and less effective.
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    Hedge
    Futures or options transactions entered into with the motivation to reduce risk.
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    Hedge
    A strategy employed in the futures, options and warrants markets to reduce... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/hedge.htm?id=12574&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of hedge'>more</a>
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    Hedge
    A financial strategy that reduces the risks from one security or other investment by buying or selling others....more on Hedge
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    hedge
    row of shrubs or low trees planted together Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a protective manoeuvre often involving the use of options or other derivative products designed to reduce the risk of loss from short-term price fluctuations Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
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    Hedge
    a living 'wall', usually of evergreen plants, employed for privacy, shelter and for the marking out of garden plots, great or small.
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    Hedge
    A hedge is typically accomplished by making approximately offsetting transactions that will largely eliminate one or more types of risk. Hedging Investors can use derivatives and covered warrants to hedge investments. For instance, if an investor owns a particular stock, he or she can neutralize the impact of an impending fall in price by buying a ...
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    Hedge
    Hedge noun [ Middle English hegge , Anglo-Saxon hecg ; akin to haga an inclosure, English haw , Anglo-Saxon hege hedge, English hay bote, Dutch hegge , Old High German hegga , German hecke . √12. See Haw a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two por ...
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    Hedge
    Hedge transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hedged ; present participle & verbal noun 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 ...
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    Hedge
    Hedge intransitive verb 1. To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations. « I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch.» Shak. 2. (Betting) To reduce ...
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    hedge
    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 . . . T ...
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    hedge
    hedging noun an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; `when you say `maybe` you are just hedging`
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    hedge
    hedgerow noun a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
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    fudge verb 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`
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    hedge
    verb minimize loss or risk; `diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks`; `hedge your bets`
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    hedge
    verb enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; `hedge the property`
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    Hedge
    The word `hedge` may be used to refer to an artificial boundary, erected to contain or protect: *A `hedge or hedgerow` in agriculture and in gardening is a lineal barrier or boundary made from growing plants planted and grown in such a way that their limbs densely intertwine, keeping livestock securely within bounds. This is the original meaning of the word. In the US, the term may also refer to the Osage-orange tree, (`Maclura pomifera`) someti...
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