HEDGEFUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedgefund mean? 

• HEDGEFUND (noun)
  The noun HEDGEFUND has 1 sense:

1. a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging

  Familiarity information: HEDGEFUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDGEFUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hedge fund; hedgefund

Hypernyms ("hedgefund" is a kind of...):

fund; investment company; investment firm; investment trust (a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies)