Hedge vs Coverage - What's the difference?
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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
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A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
(lb) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
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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.
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*:Attalus made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge -harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
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*: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.
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, passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
* Bible, Hos. ii. 6
* Milton
(finance) To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
To construct or repair a hedge.
(finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
An amount by which something or someone is covered.
The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
(lb) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
As nouns the difference between hedge and coverage
is that hedge is a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.As a verb hedge
is to enclose with a hedge or hedges.hedge
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(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
Derived terms
* hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgyVerb
(hedg)- to hedge a field or garden
- I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
- Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
- He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
Derived terms
* hedge one's bets * hedgycoverage
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(wikipedia coverage)- Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
- Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
- The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
- There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
