hedging
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
Types & categories
- security hypernym
Sense 2 noun
an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
when you say `maybe' you are just hedging
Types & categories
- evasion hypernym
Related & opposite
- sidestep derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | security |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sidestep |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | evasion |