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- a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, esp. when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges
- an act or means of preventing complete loss of a bet, an argument, an investment, or the like, with a partially counterbalancing or qualifying one
- a means of protection or defense (as against financial loss) [Taisha]
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- transitive verb
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- to enclose with or separate by a hedge: to hedge a garden [Webster]
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- Wiktionary:
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- WordNet:
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- Merriam-Webster Online:
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- MSN Encarta:
- hedge @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- hedge @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
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