(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges. || (transitive) To obstruct with a hedge or hedges. || (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with. || (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment. || (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge. || (intransitive, finance) To reduce one’s exposure to risk.
“At the junction of these roads was a fairly large field hedged all round.”
“But they hedge their predictions that there will be a global economic upturn some time later next year.”
“When asked about his involvement, he hedged.”
例句
But she had to be there. They didn’t get on so well without her; their ideas didn’t flow so freely. Clifford was much more hedgy and nervous, he got cold feet much quicker in Connie’s absence, and the talk didn’t run.