(n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
(v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
(v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
(v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
(v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
(v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
(v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Example Sentences:
(1) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(2) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(3) Miles will be replaced in September by former hedge fund economist Gertjan Vlieghe .
(4) The FSA, which was going to be given oversight of hedge funds, will instead be able to demand cooperation from them and from other financial firms it does not regulation during investigations into wrongdoing.
(5) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(6) This is a chancellor who has produced a budget for hedge fund managers more than for small businesses.” Corbyn made a point of mocking some of the chancellor’s grand rhetoric of recent years.
(7) Gold investors, hedge funds, multinational corporations and property-buying oligarchs all stand to gain.
(8) "After five years, we are in a worse place than when we started," wrote Jamil Baz, chief investment strategist at hedge fund GLG, in an eye-catching analysis last month.
(9) Former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer took out television ads on Tuesday, the night of Obama's state of the union address , attacking Keystone XL, and other wealthy Democratic donors wrote open letters to the White House seeking to shut down the project.
(10) Ruffer, who like Moulton called the recession early and has close links to hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey, has taken a 29.5% stake in Better Capital.
(11) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(12) It also severely restricts their investments in high-risk hedge funds and private equity ventures.
(13) Fitch also raised concerns that it could lose customers after the intervention of hedge funds, which are forcing the mutual Co-op Group of funeral homes, supermarkets and pharmacies to cede control of the bank.
(14) The Mail reported that prestigious internship positions in a range of industries (finance, hedge-fund work, fashion, media and so on) recently raised more than £20,000 for the Conservatives at the exclusive Black and White party .
(15) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
(16) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
(17) On Wednesday, Seth Klarman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and sometime Republican donor, said he would work to get Hillary Clinton elected, condemning Trump’s “shockingly unacceptable” remarks and calling the candidate “completely unqualified for the highest office in the land”.
(18) The Democratic frontrunner said she had laid out an “aggressive plan to rein in Wall Street” and pointed to Super Pacs established by hedge fund managers to fight her candidacy.
(19) Hedge funds: US reforms are in line with the G20 pledge that funds above a certain size should be authorised and obliged to report data to supervisors.
(20) But in Britain demand is not just for a nicer house: it is for an investment, a hedge against inflation and old age, a golden gate to otherwise impossible wealth.
Hedgerow
Definition:
(n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
Example Sentences:
(1) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(2) He quoted figures from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust showing that shoots create or maintain 7,000 hectares of hedgerows and 100,000 hectares of copses.
(3) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(4) Ecclesiasticus 9:10 I grew up on tales of my Dad's 1970s homemade hedgerow wines.
(5) Instead of fences, the different areas are bordered by low hedgerows, sprinkled with blackberries and redcurrants, while the older age groups are separate by a playful no man's land of staggered timber poles.
(6) "Because we've lived and worked together for so many years they think we're skipping hand-in-hand through a hedgerow.
(7) The increased penalities would target businesses that avoid paying landfill tax by dumping rubbish in hedgerows, parks and roadsides, and follows a 20% increase in such incidents in 2013-14.
(8) The land was separated into fields by a mile of massive old hedgerow, in places five metres high and five wide.
(9) Some said they were sometimes disturbed by residents drinking and smoking in the nearby woods and occasionally came across people sleeping rough in hedgerows because they could not get a bed.
(10) Headlines about her trip - "Joan of the Hedgerows lived on Turnips" - were her entrée.
(11) Some, however, said they were sometimes disturbed by residents drinking and smoking in the nearby woods and occasionally came across people sleeping rough in hedgerows because they could not get a bed.
(12) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
(13) He chewed his way of his house a week ago, exchanging a pen surrounded by high walls and fences for the meadows, hedgerows and woods that border the zoo.
(14) Thousands of miles of hedgerow were grubbed up, farming was increasingly industrialised, quantity replaced quality.
(15) STAY in a modern-day shepherd's hut recycled from old touring caravans in a glade close to Bodiam castle with the Original Hut Company (01580 831 845, original-huts.co.uk , from £79 a night) Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Long before foraging became trendy, David Everitt-Matthias was cooking astonishing plates using the hedgerow's bounty to supplement top-quality produce.
(16) The use of farm payments and other incentives to restore woodlands, hedgerows, grasslands and to renaturalise rivers would assist as well.
(17) In attendance are local party members and activists, average age 60, who are exhausted from canvassing, door knocking and sticking placards in hedgerows during the general and local elections.
(18) The UK is now braced to lose the vast majority of its 80 million ash trees, a native species which accounts for up to 30% of tree cover and hedgerows.
(19) Reached via two ferries, Blidö is one of the furthest out, an airy place of woods, hedgerows, rye fields and timber houses.
(20) The number of mattresses in hedgerows, old sofas on road corners and other illegally-dumped rubbish rose by a fifth in England last year, marking the first increase in flytipping in years.