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unhedged

unhedged adjective: without a hedge. Also the simple past and past participle of unhedge.

Adjective

unhedged (not comparable)

  1. Without a hedge.
    • After splashing mile after mile along straight, unhedged roads, between stretches of sodden heather […]1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast
    • An Engliand still unhedged, with great forests alive with game, and wide marshes thick with wild-fowl.1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 38
  2. Not hedged; not offset or counterbalanced.
    • A hedge fund is supposed to hedge against market movements by unhedged instruments.2007 August 26, Ben Stein, “Avoid the Craziness and No One Gets Hurt”, in New York Times

Also used as

unhedged is also the simple past and past participle of unhedge.

Origin of unhedged

From un- + hedged.

Questions about unhedged

What does unhedged mean?
Unhedged means without a hedge.
What part of speech is unhedged?
Unhedged is an adjective.

Words near unhedged in the dictionary

  1. unhectic
  2. unhectored
  3. unheddled
  4. unhedge
  5. unhedgeable
  6. unhedged
  7. unhedges
  8. unhedging
  9. unhedonistic
  10. unheed
  11. unheeded

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