"hedge" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hɛd͡ʒ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-hedge.ogg [General-American] Forms: hedges [plural]
enPR: hĕj Rhymes: -ɛdʒ Etymology: From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of quay. More at haw. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hegge}} Middle English hegge, {{inh|en|ang|heċġ}} Old English heċġ, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*haggju}} Proto-West Germanic *haggju, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*hagjō}} Proto-Germanic *hagjō, {{inh|en|ine-pro|*kagʰyóm||enclosure}} Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”), {{cog|nl|heg}} Dutch heg, {{cog|de|Hecke}} German Hecke, {{doublet|en|quay}} Doublet of quay, {{m|en|haw}} haw Head templates: {{en-noun}} hedge (plural hedges)
  1. A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden. Translations (thicket of bushes planted in a row): φραγμός (phragmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), وَشِيع (wašīʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), سِيَاج نَبَاتِيّ (siyāj nabātiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), سور من الشجر (sor men el šagar) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), دْرڭ (dreg) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine, often] (Arabic), ցանկ (cʿank) (Armenian), ցանկապատ (cʿankapat) (Armenian), garzh [feminine] (Breton), жив плет (živ plet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tanca viva [feminine] (Catalan), 籬牆 (Chinese Mandarin), 篱墙 (líqiáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 樹籬 (Chinese Mandarin), 树篱 (shùlí) (Chinese Mandarin), živý plot [masculine] (Czech), hæk (english: thicket of bushes) [common-gender] (Danish), haag [masculine] (Dutch), heĝo (Esperanto), hekk (Estonian), pensasaita (Finnish), haie [feminine] (French), sebe [feminine] (Galician), barda [feminine] (Galician), bardal [masculine] (Galician), ცოცხალი ღობე (cocxali ɣobe) (Georgian), Hecke [feminine] (German), φράχτης (fráchtis) [masculine] (Greek), φράκτης με θάμνους (fráktis me thámnous) [masculine] (Greek), גָדֵר חַיָה (gadér khayá) (Hebrew), sövény (Hungarian), sövénykerítés (Hungarian), limgerði [neuter] (Icelandic), hekk [neuter] (Icelandic), hego (Ido), fál [masculine] (Irish), ime [feminine, literary] (Irish), airbhe [feminine, literary] (Irish), siepe [feminine] (Italian), 垣根 (kakine) (alt: かきね) (Japanese), 울타리 (ultari) (Korean), saepēs [feminine] (Latin), dzīvžogs [masculine] (Latvian), gyvatvorė [feminine] (Lithuanian), Hegg [feminine] (Low German), жи́ва о́града (žíva ógrada) [feminine] (Macedonian), cleih [masculine] (Manx), hēti (Maori), hegge (Middle English), bantchie [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), fossaï [Guernsey, masculine] (Norman), hekk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hekk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), پرچین (parčin) (Persian), Hakj [feminine] (Plautdietsch), Schauns [feminine] (Plautdietsch), żywopłot [masculine] (Polish), sebe [feminine] (Portuguese), cerca viva [feminine] (Portuguese), gard viu [neuter] (Romanian), жива́я и́згородь (živája ízgorodʹ) [feminine] (Russian), dyke (Scots), callaid [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), fàl [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), жѝвица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), жѝвичња̄к [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), žìvica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), žìvičnjāk [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), živý plot [masculine] (Slovak), živa meja [feminine] (Slovene), seto [masculine] (Spanish), seto vivo [masculine] (Spanish), cerco vivo [masculine] (Spanish), sebe (Spanish), häck (Swedish), çalı çit (Turkish), çit (Turkish), håye [feminine] (Walloon), clawdd [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-pWnJhTXL Disambiguation of 'thicket of bushes planted in a row': 47 13 16 5 10 9
  2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. Translations (barrier to protect someone or something from harm): zajištění [neuter] (Czech), ochrana [feminine] (Czech), suojamuuri (Finnish), védőfal (Hungarian), afray [masculine] (Tarifit)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-qfCvRO-Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 20 11 9 18 19 1 2 3 3 3 3 Disambiguation of 'barrier to protect someone or something from harm': 3 79 4 4 4 6
  3. (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. Tags: Cornwall, Devon, UK, West-Country Translations (mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land): valli (Finnish), sebe [masculine] (Galician), valo [masculine] (Galician), arró [masculine] (Galician), cómaro [masculine] (Galician), roleiro [masculine] (Galician), sánc (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-NZoXQhQy Categories (other): British English, Cornish English, Devonian English, West Country English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 20 11 9 18 19 1 2 3 3 3 3 Disambiguation of 'mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land': 22 4 60 2 3 9
  4. (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement. Categories (topical): Pragmatics Translations (pragmatics: non-committal statement): vyhýbavé prohlášení [neuter] (Czech), varaus (Finnish), pehmennys (Finnish), Heckenausdruck [masculine] (German), Weichzeichner [masculine] (German), экиво́к (ekivók) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-en:pragmatics Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, pragmatics, sciences Disambiguation of 'pragmatics: non-committal statement': 5 14 8 50 12 11
  5. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements). Categories (topical): Finance Translations (finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk): pokrytí rizik [neuter] (Czech), rozložení rizika [neuter] (Czech), suojaus (Finnish), couverture de risque [feminine] (French), lefedezés (Hungarian), bebiztosítás (Hungarian), ellentranzakció (Hungarian), fogadásbiztosítás (Hungarian), cobertura de risco [feminine] (Portuguese), cobertura [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-V4Y0WZFb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 20 11 9 18 19 1 2 3 3 3 3 Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of 'finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk': 3 4 2 2 84 5
  6. (UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate. Tags: Ireland, UK
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-noun-V6ME5Tj9 Categories (other): British English, Irish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 20 11 9 18 19 1 2 3 3 3 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /hɛd͡ʒ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-hedge.ogg [General-American] Forms: hedges [present, singular, third-person], hedging [participle, present], hedged [participle, past], hedged [past]
enPR: hĕj Rhymes: -ɛdʒ Etymology: From Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|heggen}} Middle English heggen Head templates: {{en-verb}} hedge (third-person singular simple present hedges, present participle hedging, simple past and past participle hedged)
  1. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges. Tags: transitive Translations (to enclose with hedge): φράσσω (phrássō) (Ancient Greek), ограждам (ograždam) (Bulgarian), aidata (Finnish), ცოცხალ ღობეს ავლებს (cocxal ɣobes avlebs) (Georgian), ცოცხალ ღობეს შემოავლებს (cocxal ɣobes šemoavlebs) (Georgian), bekerít (Hungarian), körülvesz (Hungarian), övez (Hungarian), fálaigh (Irish), heggen (Middle English), огра́дити живицом [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ográditi živicom [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), oplotiť (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-HQ1rx0~7 Disambiguation of 'to enclose with hedge': 83 8 2 3 2 2
  2. (transitive) To obstruct or surround. Tags: transitive Translations (to obstruct with hedge): преграждам (pregraždam) (Bulgarian), aidata (Finnish), ღობით გამოყოფს (ɣobit gamoq̇ops) (Georgian), ზღუდით გამოყოფს (zɣudit gamoq̇ops) (Georgian), elkerít (Hungarian), fálaigh (Irish), whakakarapoti (Maori), загра́дити живицом [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), zagráditi živicom [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zamedziť (Slovak), prehradiť (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-SvJxD4IS Disambiguation of 'to obstruct with hedge': 7 77 3 3 3 6
  3. (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Finance Translations (finance: to offset the risk associated with): zajistit rizika [perfective] (Czech), suojata (Finnish), თავის დაზღვევა (tavis dazɣveva) (Georgian), თავის დაცვა ფინანსური რისკებისგან (tavis dacva pinansuri risḳebisgan) (Georgian), ჰეჯირება (heǯireba) (Georgian), bebiztosít (Hungarian), lefedez (Hungarian), fálaigh (Irish), ヘッジする (hejji-suru) (Japanese), whakarauhi (Maori), хеџовање [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), hedžovanje [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-Q83RWfQC Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of 'finance: to offset the risk associated with': 1 2 74 2 3 19
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to avoid verbal commitment): извъртам (izvǎrtam) (Bulgarian), усуквам (usukvam) (Bulgarian), pyöritellä (Finnish), tasapainoilla (Finnish), kertel (Hungarian), mellébeszél (Hungarian), nem vall színt (Hungarian), nem ad egyenes választ (Hungarian), kibújik/kitér a válaszadás alól (Hungarian), köntörfalaz (Hungarian), вр̏дати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), изврда́вати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), vȑdati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), izvrdávati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-PZ6nZwqc Disambiguation of 'to avoid verbal commitment': 1 1 1 96 1 1
  5. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge. Tags: intransitive Translations (to construct or repair a hedge): aidata [construct] (Finnish), korjata aita (english: repair) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-187YMDbX Disambiguation of 'to construct or repair a hedge': 3 1 1 1 93 1
  6. (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Finance Translations (to reduce one's exposure to risk): snížit riziko [perfective] (Czech), suojata (Finnish), bebiztosítja magát (Hungarian), óvatos duhaj (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-hedge-en-verb-1~EZHsDd Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of "to reduce one's exposure to risk": 0 1 5 1 1 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hedge in, hedge one's bets, hedger
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "word": "hedge tree"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "wašīʕ",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "وَشِيع"
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          "roman": "siyāj nabātiyy",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "word": "سِيَاج نَبَاتِيّ"
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          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "sor men el šagar",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "سور من الشجر"
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          "code": "ary",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "raw_tags": [
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          "roman": "dreg",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine",
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          "word": "دْرڭ"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "cʿank",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "ցանկ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "cʿankapat",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "ցանկապատ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "garzh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "živ plet",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "жив плет"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tanca viva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "籬牆"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "líqiáng",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "篱墙"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "樹籬"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shùlí",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "树篱"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "živý plot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "da",
          "english": "thicket of bushes",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "hæk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "haag"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "heĝo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "hekk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "pensasaita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "haie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sebe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "barda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bardal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "cocxali ɣobe",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "ცოცხალი ღობე"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Hecke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "fráchtis",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "φράχτης"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "fráktis me thámnous",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "φράκτης με θάμνους"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "φραγμός"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "he",
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          "roman": "gadér khayá",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "sövény"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "sövénykerítés"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "limgerði"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hekk"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fál"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "ime"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "airbhe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "siepe"
        },
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakine",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "垣根"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ultari",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "word": "울타리"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "saepēs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dzīvžogs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gyvatvorė"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nds",
          "lang": "Low German",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Hegg"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "žíva ógrada",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "жи́ва о́града"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cleih"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "enm",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nrf",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bantchie"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "fossaï"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "hekk"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "nn",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hekk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "fa",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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        },
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schauns"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "żywopłot"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sebe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cerca viva"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "gard viu"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "roman": "živája ízgorodʹ",
          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "жива́я и́згородь"
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "sco",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gd",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "callaid"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
          "code": "gd",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "word": "fàl"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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        {
          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "živa meja"
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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          "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
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          "_dis1": "47 13 16 5 10 9",
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        "(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land."
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          "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
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        "(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement."
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          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "vyhýbavé prohlášení"
        },
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          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
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          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "word": "varaus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "word": "pehmennys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Heckenausdruck"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Weichzeichner"
        },
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          "_dis1": "5 14 8 50 12 11",
          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "экиво́к"
        }
      ]
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
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            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: diversification"
        },
        {
          "text": "The asset class acts as a hedge.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements)."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-noun-V4Y0WZFb",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "exposure",
          "exposure"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "interest rate",
          "interest rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements)."
      ],
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        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "pokrytí rizik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "rozložení rizika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "word": "suojaus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "couverture de risque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "note": "fedezeti/árfolyamfedezeti/veszteségkorlátozó ügylet",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "word": "lefedezés"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "word": "bebiztosítás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "word": "ellentranzakció"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "word": "fogadásbiztosítás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cobertura de risco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 4 2 2 84 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cobertura"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "_dis": "8 20 11 9 18 19 1 2 3 3 3 3",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        {
          "ref": ", Folio Society 1973, p.639",
          "text": "He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Henry Rider Haggard, A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page 222",
          "text": "This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-noun-V6ME5Tj9",
      "links": [
        [
          "third-rate",
          "third-rate"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "noun adjunct",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/hɛd͡ʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛdʒ"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-us-hedge.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "hĕj"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hedge"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hedge in"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hedge one's bets"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hedger"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "heggen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English heggen",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).",
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      "form": "hedges",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hedging",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hedged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hedged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to hedge a field or garden",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To enclose with a hedge or hedges."
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        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ograždam",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "ограждам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "aidata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "cocxal ɣobes avlebs",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "ცოცხალ ღობეს ავლებს"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "cocxal ɣobes šemoavlebs",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "ცოცხალ ღობეს შემოავლებს"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "phrássō",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "φράσσω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "bekerít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "körülvesz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "övez"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "fálaigh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "heggen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "огра́дити живицом"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "ográditi živicom"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 8 2 3 2 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
          "word": "oplotiť"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To obstruct or surround."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-verb-SvJxD4IS",
      "links": [
        [
          "obstruct",
          "obstruct"
        ],
        [
          "surround",
          "surround"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To obstruct or surround."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pregraždam",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "преграждам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "aidata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ɣobit gamoq̇ops",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "ღობით გამოყოფს"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "zɣudit gamoq̇ops",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "ზღუდით გამოყოფს"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "elkerít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "fálaigh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "whakakarapoti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "загра́дити живицом"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "zagráditi živicom"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "zamedziť"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 77 3 3 3 6",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
          "word": "prehradiť"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To offset the risk associated with."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-verb-Q83RWfQC",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zajistit rizika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "suojata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "tavis dazɣveva",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "თავის დაზღვევა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "tavis dacva pinansuri risḳebisgan",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "თავის დაცვა ფინანსური რისკებისგან"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "heǯireba",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "ჰეჯირება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "note": "თავის დაზღვევა ფინანსური რისკებისგან",
          "roman": "tavis dazɣveva pinansuri risḳebisgan",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "bebiztosít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "lefedez"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "fálaigh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hejji-suru",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "ヘッジする"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "word": "whakarauhi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "хеџовање"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 74 2 3 19",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "hedžovanje"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid verbal commitment."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-verb-PZ6nZwqc",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "izvǎrtam",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "извъртам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "usukvam",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "усуквам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "pyöritellä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "tasapainoilla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "kertel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "mellébeszél"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "nem vall színt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "nem ad egyenes választ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "kibújik/kitér a válaszadás alól"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "word": "köntörfalaz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "вр̏дати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "изврда́вати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "vȑdati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 96 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "izvrdávati"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To construct or repair a hedge."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-verb-187YMDbX",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 1 1 93 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to construct or repair a hedge",
          "tags": [
            "construct"
          ],
          "word": "aidata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 1 1 93 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "repair",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to construct or repair a hedge",
          "word": "korjata aita"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: diversify"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce one's exposure to risk."
      ],
      "id": "en-hedge-en-verb-1~EZHsDd",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 1 1 91",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "snížit riziko"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 1 1 91",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
          "word": "suojata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 1 1 91",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
          "word": "bebiztosítja magát"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 1 1 91",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
          "word": "óvatos duhaj"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/hɛd͡ʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɛdʒ"
    },
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "hĕj"
    }
  ],
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}
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    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛdʒ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛdʒ/1 syllable"
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      "word": "behedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "Cornish hedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "fedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgeapple"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgebill"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge bindweed"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-breaking"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge creeper"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-diving"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hedge End"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge fund"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge garlic"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgehog"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-hog"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgehop"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-hop"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgeless"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgeline"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-lined"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge marriage"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge maze"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge mustard"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge-note"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge parson"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge popping"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge priest"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgerow"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge school"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge sermon"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge sparrow"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge tree"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge trimmer"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge warbler"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedgy"
    },
    {
      "word": "homely as a hedge fence"
    },
    {
      "word": "jack-by-the-hedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards"
    },
    {
      "word": "robin-run-in-the-hedge"
    },
    {
      "word": "robin-run-the-hedge"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "heċġ"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
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      },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kagʰyóm",
        "4": "",
        "5": "enclosure"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heg"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Hecke"
      },
      "expansion": "German Hecke",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quay"
      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "haw"
      },
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      "name": "m"
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    {
      "form": "hedges",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "args": {},
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "He trims the hedge once a week.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden."
      ],
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          "thicket"
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          "shrubbery"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "Cornish English",
        "Devonian English",
        "West Country English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cornwall",
        "Devon",
        "UK",
        "West-Country"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        {
          "ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487",
          "text": "When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement."
      ],
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        [
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          "pragmatics"
        ]
      ],
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        "(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement."
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "pragmatics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: diversification"
        },
        {
          "text": "The asset class acts as a hedge.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements)."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "finance",
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        [
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          "exposure"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
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        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "interest rate",
          "interest rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", Folio Society 1973, p.639",
          "text": "He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Henry Rider Haggard, A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page 222",
          "text": "This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "third-rate",
          "third-rate"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "noun adjunct",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/hɛd͡ʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛdʒ"
    },
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      "enpr": "hĕj"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wašīʕ",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "وَشِيع"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "siyāj nabātiyy",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِيَاج نَبَاتِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sor men el šagar",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سور من الشجر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "raw_tags": [
        "from cactus"
      ],
      "roman": "dreg",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic",
        "masculine",
        "often"
      ],
      "word": "دْرڭ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cʿank",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "ցանկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cʿankapat",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "ցանկապատ"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "garzh"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "živ plet",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "жив плет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tanca viva"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "籬牆"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "líqiáng",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "篱墙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "樹籬"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shùlí",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "树篱"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "živý plot"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "english": "thicket of bushes",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hæk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "haag"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "heĝo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "hekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "pensasaita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "haie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barda"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bardal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "cocxali ɣobe",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "ცოცხალი ღობე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hecke"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fráchtis",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "φράχτης"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fráktis me thámnous",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "φράκτης με θάμνους"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "phragmós",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "φραγμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "gadér khayá",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "גָדֵר חַיָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "sövény"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "sövénykerítés"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "limgerði"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "hego"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fál"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ime"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "airbhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "siepe"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かきね",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakine",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "垣根"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ultari",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "울타리"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "saepēs"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dzīvžogs"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gyvatvorė"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds",
      "lang": "Low German",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hegg"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "žíva ógrada",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жи́ва о́града"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cleih"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "hēti"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "hegge"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bantchie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Guernsey",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fossaï"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "parčin",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "پرچین"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hakj"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schauns"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "żywopłot"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cerca viva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "gard viu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "živája ízgorodʹ",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жива́я и́згородь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "dyke"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "callaid"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fàl"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жѝвица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "жѝвичња̄к"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "žìvica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "žìvičnjāk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "živý plot"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "živa meja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seto vivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cerco vivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "sebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "häck"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "çalı çit"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "word": "çit"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "håye"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "thicket of bushes planted in a row",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clawdd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "barrier to protect someone or something from harm",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zajištění"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "barrier to protect someone or something from harm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ochrana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "barrier to protect someone or something from harm",
      "word": "suojamuuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "barrier to protect someone or something from harm",
      "word": "védőfal"
    },
    {
      "code": "rif",
      "lang": "Tarifit",
      "sense": "barrier to protect someone or something from harm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "afray"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "word": "valli"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "valo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arró"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cómaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roleiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "mound of earth, used as a fence between any two portions of land",
      "word": "sánc"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vyhýbavé prohlášení"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "word": "varaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "word": "pehmennys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Heckenausdruck"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Weichzeichner"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekivók",
      "sense": "pragmatics: non-committal statement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "экиво́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pokrytí rizik"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rozložení rizika"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "word": "suojaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "couverture de risque"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "note": "fedezeti/árfolyamfedezeti/veszteségkorlátozó ügylet",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "word": "lefedezés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "word": "bebiztosítás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "word": "ellentranzakció"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "word": "fogadásbiztosítás"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cobertura de risco"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cobertura"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hedge"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛdʒ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛdʒ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hedge in"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedge one's bets"
    },
    {
      "word": "hedger"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "heggen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English heggen",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hedges",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hedging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hedged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hedged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hedge (third-person singular simple present hedges, present participle hedging, simple past and past participle hedged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to hedge a field or garden",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enclose with a hedge or hedges."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obstruct or surround."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "obstruct",
          "obstruct"
        ],
        [
          "surround",
          "surround"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To obstruct or surround."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To offset the risk associated with."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid verbal commitment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To construct or repair a hedge."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: diversify"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce one's exposure to risk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/hɛd͡ʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛdʒ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-hedge.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-us-hedge.ogg/En-us-hedge.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-us-hedge.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "hĕj"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ograždam",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "ограждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "aidata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "cocxal ɣobes avlebs",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "ცოცხალ ღობეს ავლებს"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "cocxal ɣobes šemoavlebs",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "ცოცხალ ღობეს შემოავლებს"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "phrássō",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "φράσσω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "bekerít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "körülvesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "övez"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "fálaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "heggen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "огра́дити живицом"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ográditi živicom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to enclose with hedge",
      "word": "oplotiť"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pregraždam",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "преграждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "aidata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ɣobit gamoq̇ops",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "ღობით გამოყოფს"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "zɣudit gamoq̇ops",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "ზღუდით გამოყოფს"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "elkerít"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "fálaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "whakakarapoti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "загра́дити живицом"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "zagráditi živicom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "zamedziť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to obstruct with hedge",
      "word": "prehradiť"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zajistit rizika"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "suojata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tavis dazɣveva",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "თავის დაზღვევა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tavis dacva pinansuri risḳebisgan",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "თავის დაცვა ფინანსური რისკებისგან"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "heǯireba",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "ჰეჯირება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "note": "თავის დაზღვევა ფინანსური რისკებისგან",
      "roman": "tavis dazɣveva pinansuri risḳebisgan",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "bebiztosít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "lefedez"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "fálaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hejji-suru",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "ヘッジする"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "word": "whakarauhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хеџовање"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "finance: to offset the risk associated with",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "hedžovanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izvǎrtam",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "извъртам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "usukvam",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "усуквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "pyöritellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "tasapainoilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "kertel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "mellébeszél"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "nem vall színt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "nem ad egyenes választ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "kibújik/kitér a válaszadás alól"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "word": "köntörfalaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "вр̏дати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "изврда́вати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "vȑdati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to avoid verbal commitment",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "izvrdávati"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to construct or repair a hedge",
      "tags": [
        "construct"
      ],
      "word": "aidata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "repair",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to construct or repair a hedge",
      "word": "korjata aita"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "snížit riziko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
      "word": "suojata"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
      "word": "bebiztosítja magát"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce one's exposure to risk",
      "word": "óvatos duhaj"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hedge"
}

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