HEDGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedging mean? 

• HEDGING (noun)
  The noun HEDGING has 2 senses:

1. any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

2. an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

  Familiarity information: HEDGING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

hedge; hedging

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

protection; security (defense against financial failure; financial independence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hedge; hedging

Context example:

when you say 'maybe' you are just hedging

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

equivocation; evasion (a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth)

Derivation:

hedge (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues))

 Context examples 

“Here’s Sir John Lade hedging!” cried my uncle, smiling back at us over his shoulder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)