1. To qualify a statement or avoid committing fully to a position.
2. To arrange an offsetting position to limit financial risk.
3. A line of closely growing shrubs forming a barrier or boundary.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- hedge a claim
- hedge one's answer
On the page
The author hedges the conclusion with several qualifications.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- hedge
- Past tense
- hedged
- Past participle
- hedged
- Present participle
- hedging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- hedge
- Present continuous
- am/is/are hedging
- Present perfect
- have/has hedged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been hedging
- Past
- hedged
- Past continuous
- was/were hedging
- Past perfect
- had hedged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been hedging
- Future
- will hedge
- Future continuous
- will be hedging
- Future perfect
- will have hedged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been hedging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: hedge; hedges; hedged; hedged; hedging. Noun singular hedge; plural hedges. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: argumentation, evidence, inference. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: hedges.
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