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hedging
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hedging has 2 senses
- hedging(n = noun.possession) hedge - any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change; Array is a kind of protection, security
- hedging(n = noun.communication) hedge - an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging" is a kind of equivocation, evasion
Derived form verb hedge1
THESAURUS
hedging
allowance, bickering, boggling, calculation, canniness, captious, captiousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, caviling, cession, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, circumscription, circumspection, concession, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, discretion, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, fencing, gingerliness, grain of salt, grant, guardedness, hairsplitting, hedge, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, judiciousness, limitation, logic-chopping, mental reservation, mindfulness, modification, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pawkiness, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, prevarication, prior consultation, prudence, prudentialness, pussyfooting, qualification, quibbling, regardfulness, reservation, restriction, safeness, safety first, salvo, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, slowness to act, solicitude, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, subterfuge, tentativeness, tergiversation, thoroughness, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, uncommunicativeness, unprecipitateness, waiver
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