Definitions For Hedge

noun

  • A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
  • An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
  • Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
  • A row of shrubs or small trees that are planted close to each other in order to form a boundary
  • Something that provides protection or defense

verb

  • Minimize loss or risk
  • Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
  • Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
  • To surround (an area) with a hedge
  • To avoid giving a promise or direct answer

Is Hedge a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
10

The word Hedge is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Hedge in a Sentence

  • The messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards
  • The garden is hedged by flowering shrubs.
  • She hedged when she was asked to support the campaign.
  • He hedged his earlier comments about the need for new management.

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