Meaning & use
Hedged
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Qualified or deliberately non-committal, avoiding a direct or definite statement; or, in finance, protected against potential loss through an offsetting transaction.
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Her hedged answer left reporters unsure whether she supported the bill or not.
The fund manager kept a hedged position to limit losses if the market fell.
A note on using this word
Comes from the image of a hedge as a protective boundary, extended metaphorically to mean protecting oneself from risk, whether financial or conversational.
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