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UK
/hˈɛdʒd/
]
[ US /ˈhɛdʒd/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
How To Use hedged In A Sentence
- He added: ‘Perhaps you hedged on this, so as to avoid giving the directors of intelligence too much detailed information.’
- The cruise ship operator leaves it entire fuel bill unhedged. Times, Sunday Times
- And of course, we benefited from the upside in the gold price, but not as significant as one would have expected, because as you know, we are heavily hedged.
- Even scientists optimistic about the future have hedged their predictions with warnings.
- Big sodden bales sat in the small high-hedged fresh-cut fields, a pigeon clapped in the alders and misty rain filled a steel grey sky.
- In December, the RBI placed limits on unhedged foreign currency positions that banks can hold overnight and also banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forward contracts with the same underlying exposure as part of measures to prop up the local currency. RBI: Forex Trading Curbs Temporary
- But if all these words look wordish, sound wordish, and act wordish, why are they all hedged about with the namby-pamby "I know it's not a real word" disclaimers? Peter Black's Freedom to Differ
- The ‘constructive’ market position is favourable to short term unhedged long positions.
- His religious belief was always hedged with doubt.
- Because a prime attraction of local currency bonds are the expected extra returns an investor can earn rising emerging-market currencies, most local bond investors left their positions unhedged against currency fluctuations. Emerging Markets Tumble World-Wide