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单词 hedge
释义
hedge
(he )
Word forms: hedges , hedging , hedged
1. countable noun B2
A hedge is a row of bushes or small trees, usually along the edge of a garden, field, or road.
2. verb
If you hedge against something unpleasant or unwanted that might affect you, especially losing money, you do something which will protect you from it.
You can hedge against redundancy or illness with insurance. [VERB + against]
Today's clever financial instruments make it possible for firms to hedge their risks. [VERB noun]
3. countable noun
Something that is a hedge against something unpleasant will protect you from its effects.
Gold is traditionally a hedge against inflation. [+ against]
Synonyms: guard, cover, protection, compensation  
4. verb
If you hedge, you avoid answering a question or committing yourself to a particular action or decision.
They hedged in answering various questions about the operation. [VERB]
'I can't give you an answer now,' he hedged. [VERB with quote]
5. hedge one's bets phrase
If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
The company tried to hedge its bets by diversifying into other fields.
Forecasters are hedging their bets about the outcome of this Saturday's Louisiana governor's race.
Phrasal verbs:
hedge about
phrasal verb
If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
The offer was hedged around with conditions. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE + with]
Many reduced fares are hedged around with restrictions. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE + with]
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Idioms:
hedge your bets
to avoid making decisions, or to decide on more than one thing, so that you will not make a mistake whichever way the situation develops
Political forecasters are hedging their bets about the likely outcome of this Saturday's Louisiana governor's race.
Collocations:
hedge maze
Enormous trees loom over a hedge maze and hidden doors are set into the walls of beautifully kept kitchen gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
The first level was criticized for having a difficult hedge maze that discouraged many gamers.
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A hedge maze or labyrinth existed in the grounds up until the 1920s.
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They include a parterre and hedge maze, and expansive vistas of the surrounding landscape from the terrace gardens.
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The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property.
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hedge the risk
That encourages bank dealers to hedge their risk by trading themselves before the fix.
Times, Sunday Times
Prices have been subject to volatility in recent years, leading to the creation of a futures market to allow traders, importers and processors to hedge their risk.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the society would have had to hedge the risk that borrowers withdraw their cash before the end of the term, which would leave it short of funding.
Times, Sunday Times
Large suppliers are able to hedge the risk of currency movements by buying energy in advance for delivery to homes months or years later.
Times, Sunday Times
Thus estimating market expectations of correlation of stocks can help investors to hedge their risk in the long term.
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hedging strategies
Most oil firms have managed to hold on thanks to deep cost cuts and clever hedging strategies.
Times, Sunday Times
But there also appear to have been internal failings - in hedging strategies, in credit assessment and in proprietary trading.
Times, Sunday Times
Hedging strategies also minimise the exchange rate effect.
Times, Sunday Times
Nor, after a century of uncertainty principles, incompleteness theorems and the hedging strategies of postmodernism, could we claim that scientists were tritely obsessed with absolutes.
The Times Literary Supplement
Large companies tend to have sophisticated and often longer-term currency hedging strategies.
Times, Sunday Times
inflation hedge
However, some advisers question whether commodities are as good an inflation hedge as they are perceived.
Times, Sunday Times
Views on the best inflation hedge differ.
Times, Sunday Times
An economy with a well-developed financial market can offer a set of alternative financial instruments dominated in domestic currency, reducing the role of foreign currency as an inflation hedge.
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tall hedge
Ranks of tall hedge poplars made verticals in the horizontal landscape as we walked the boundaries of barley and beet fields.
Times, Sunday Times
On the other side of me there was a tall hedge full of blue sloes and pink spindle berries.
Times, Sunday Times
A tall hedge obscures the view to the street.
Times, Sunday Times
I have seen it look fabulous on a starved grassy bank under a tall hedge, lightly studding an area yards across.
Times, Sunday Times
They often sit on top of a tall hedge, easily seen.
Times, Sunday Times
trim the hedge
Spray in spring to protect new leaves, and when you trim the hedge.
The Sun
Do not trim your hedge if birds are nesting in it.
The Sun
Can they not trim their hedge?
Times, Sunday Times
Apply a spray in the spring to protect new leaves and repeat each time you trim the hedge.
The Sun
Follow up with sprays in spring to protect new leaves and again each time you trim the hedge.
The Sun
yew hedge
Perfect when throwing its blood-red flowers across a dark green yew hedge.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The lawn is edged by a long yew hedge rising in a gentle Baroque curve to provide a noble backdrop for a large garden seat.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A clipped yew hedge behind wrought-iron railings sets the period town house back from the street.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When is a good time to trim a formal yew hedge?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Translations:
Chinese: 树篱, 防备 尤指金钱损失
Japanese: 垣根, 保護する
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