hedge A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to separate a road from adjoini ...

is a line of closely spaced shrubs planted to act as a barrier or boundary. Hedge or Hedges may also refer to:

Places

* Hedges, California, a former mining town in Imperial County, California, United States * Hedging, Somerset, a

location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

in England * Hedges, Washington, unincorporated community in Benton County, Washington, United States * The Hedges, a historic building in New York state

People and fictional characters

* Hedge (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters) * Hedges (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters) * Hedge Thompson (1780–1828), American politician from New Jersey *

Hedges Eyre Chatterton Hedges Eyre Chatterton (5 July 1819 – 30 August 1910) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Ireland. Biography He was born in Cork, the eldest son of Abra ...

(1819-1910), Irish politician * Hedges Worthington-Eyre (1899–1979), British sprinter * Hedge (character), a fictional character in the ''Old Kingdom'' series of novels

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Hedge (finance) A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insu ...

, an investment made to limit loss **

Hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

, a type of investment fund *

Hedge (linguistics) In the linguistic sub-fields of applied linguistics and pragmatics, a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability, caution, or indecisiveness about the remainder of the sentence, rather than full accuracy, certain ...

, intentionally non-committal or ambiguous sentence fragments * ''

Maclura pomifera ''Maclura pomifera'', commonly known as the Osage orange ( ), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about tall. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, b ...

'' or Osage orange tree, often called a hedge in the United States

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