(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.
Risk
Definition:
(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(4) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(5) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(6) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(7) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(8) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(9) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(10) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(11) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(12) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(13) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(14) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(15) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(16) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
(17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(18) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(19) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(20) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.