to hedge
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7.4
- verb
- /hɛdʒ/
:
eludir
- To balance these conflicting objectives, biologists often hedge and add uncertainty to their conclusions.
- hedge your bets
- a hedged statement
You're hedging, you're hedging your identity, you're hedging your sort of existential investment.
- You're hedging, you're hedging your identity, you're hedging your sort of existential investment.
- Because when I would go to YouTube events and ask for advice, people would often hedge their opinion.
- Because these situations, most of them, I would almost say all of them, but I I'll hedge and I'll say most of them have significant nuance.
Examples
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When asked about his plans for the future, he tried to hedge and avoided giving a clear answer.
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Despite its declarative title, the text of the book actually hedges on the promise of lunar vacations for all.
Academic text (2007) -
Because when I would go to YouTube events and ask for advice, people would often hedge their opinion.
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For once in your life, don't hedge, okay?
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When asked if he was a big drinker, he hedged and said that he was not.
Academic text (1995) -
An Associated Press story the same day said Romney "hedged" his support for the Ryan plan.
Blog text (29) -
A determination of attribution is rarely definitive, and will usually be hedged with some degree of uncertainty.
Academic text (2017) -
All this care in hedging can get lost or misrepresented when the hedged statement is cited by another researcher.
Academic text (2001) -
But in 1969, when George Stavros asked if she had "given up writing ballads," she hedged: "I don't know."
Academic text (2010) -
Where humbler men would have hedged and tiptoed, Decetes strode with confidence.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
64
6.8
To avoid doing something you are supposed to do
42
7.8
Refuse to answer questions to delay or block progress
31
3.9
To avoid doing something you should do, for example a duty or a direct question
25
5.3
To avoid answering a question or facing responsibility by giving unclear answers
19
6.8
To avoid dealing with a question or problem
15
4.9
To avoid answering a question or dealing with a problem directly
13
6.6
To avoid choosing a side in a disagreement
10
8.2
To avoid doing something you should do by being dishonest or tricky
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9.9
To use unclear words to avoid giving a direct answer or telling the truth
6
8.6
To avoid making a clear decision or giving a direct answer
5
7.7
To avoid giving a clear answer or decision
3
9.1
To avoid giving a direct answer to hide the truth
2
8.1
To avoid answering a question by giving a vague answer
To avoid answering a question directly by being unclear
To speak or act to hide the truth and avoid a clear answer
To avoid a direct answer by being unclear on purpose
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
To protect yourself from losing money by choosing different plans or investments
Compounds
- Specialized
86
6.3
A company that manages money for rich people and uses risky methods to try to make big profits
1
3.5
A row of privet bushes planted close together to make a living fence for a garden
A plant that lives for many years and spreads by underground stems in wet or shady places
- UK
A plant from Europe with pink or white flowers whose leaves make soap when crushed
- South African
A South African bush with sharp forked branches and fruit like small plums often planted as a fence
A climbing wildflower with twining stems and pink or white trumpet-shaped flowers
How Direct
Surface Forms
Etymology
To hedge (avoid giving a direct answer) comes from the same image of putting a fence around your words, so to hedge is to stay safe and not commit to one clear answer.