Usually means: Financial strategy to reduce risk.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word hedge:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hedge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hedge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hedge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hedge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hedge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hedge, hedge: Wordnik
  7. hedge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hedge, hedge: Wiktionary
  9. hedge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hedge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hedge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hedge: Dictionary.com
  13. hedge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hedge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hedge (barrier), Hedge (disambiguation), Hedge (finance), Hedge (gardening), Hedge (linguistics), Hedge (surname), Hedge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hedge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hedge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hedge: Rhymezone
  19. hedge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hedge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hedge: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hedge: Free Dictionary
  23. hedge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Hedge, hedge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Hedge: The Word Detective
  26. hedge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. hedge: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. HEDGE: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Hedge: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Hedge: Moneyterms
  8. Hedge: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Hedge: Management Dictionary
  10. Hedge: Investopedia
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. hedge: Legal dictionary
  13. Hedge (finance), Hedge: Financial dictionary
  14. Hedge: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hedge (barrier), Hedge (finance), hedge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hedge (finance), hedge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HEDGE: Acronym Finder
  3. hedge: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hedge: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hedge, hedge, hedge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hedge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hedge: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hedged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
noun:  A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
noun:  (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
noun:  (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
noun:  (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
noun:  (UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
verb:  (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
verb:  (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
verb:  (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
noun:  A surname.

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