| noun | a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes |
| noun | any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change |
| noun | an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement “when you say `maybe' you are just hedging” |
| verb | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) “He dodged the issue” |
| verb | hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge “The animals were hedged in” |
| verb | enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges “hedge the property” |
| verb | minimize loss or risk “diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks” |
| hedge | verb | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) |
| hedge | noun | an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement |
| hedger | noun | a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer |
| hedging | noun | an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement |
| evasion | noun | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do |
| circumvention | noun | the act of evading by going around |
| dodge | noun | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
| dodger | noun | a shifty deceptive person |
| dodging | noun | deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening |