Hedging [verb]

Definition of Hedging:

avoid, dodge

Opposite/Antonyms of Hedging:


Sentence/Example of Hedging:

What argument does Burke use to prove that hedging in the population is not practicable?

I might have hedged on my own stock, but I don't believe in hedging.

What does a poor man do, who goes out hedging and ditching with a dead child lying in his house?

With the infinite number and variety of chimneys hedging me in, I naturally expected to find the sky alive with swallows.

It was very hard to keep up with the exactions of her family who were continually hedging her about with some new condition.

Perhaps the most important thing which good conversation is not, is this: It is not talking for effect, or hedging.

But the suspicion will recur that perhaps the army hedging us in is not large after all.

A board fence ran along the front yard, hedging in some lilac bushes and a huge snowball bush.

As in the grain and cotton markets, dealers protect themselves against price fluctuations by hedging in the future market.

Business on the Exchange followed its usual course, and the customary hedging of purchases was done by dealers.