Risk vs Hedge - What's the difference?
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A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger.
* Macaulay
* 2006 , BBC News'' website, ''Farmers warned over skin cancer read at [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4764525.stm] on 14 May 2006
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* 2006', Trever Ramsey on ''BBC News'' website, ''Exercise 'cuts skin cancer '''risk' read at [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4764535.stm] on 14 May 2006
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, title= The potential (conventionally negative) should it occur.
* 2002', Decisioneering Inc website, ''What is '''risk ? read at [http://www.decisioneering.com/risk-analysis.html] on 14 May 2006
To incur risk (to something).
* 2006 , BBC Sport website, Beckham wary over Rooney comeback read at [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/england/4769433.stm] on 14 May 2006
To incur risk (of something).
* 2006 , Transportation Alternatives'' website, ''Rail delays as thieves cut power read at [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4972476.stm] on 14 May 2006
To incur risk (by something).
* 1999 , BBC News'' website, ''Volunteer of the Month: Andrew Hay McConnell read at [http://www.transalt.org/press/magazine/994Summer/12volunteer.html] on 14 May 2006
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.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p.639:
*: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.
*{{quote-book, 1899, (Henry Rider Haggard), title=
, 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.
As nouns the difference between risk and hedge
is that risk is a possible, usually negative, outcome, eg, a danger while 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.As verbs the difference between risk and hedge
is that risk is to incur risk (to something) while hedge is to enclose with a hedge or hedges.risk
English
(wikipedia risk)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- the imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves
- There was also a "degree of complacency" that the weather in the country was not good enough to present a health risk .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- Taking regular exercise, coupled with a healthy diet, reduced the risk of several types of cancer.
Behaviorism at 100, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
- If there is a 25% chance of running over schedule, costing you a $100 out of your own pocket, that might be a risk' you are willing to take. But if you have a 5% chance of running overschedule, knowing that there is a $10,000 penalty, you might be less willing to take that ' risk .
Derived terms
* market risk * credit risk * currency risk * operational risk * political risk * financial risk * residual risk * health risk * inflation risk * risk management * risk assessment * risk analysisVerb
(en verb)- England captain David Beckham has warned Wayne Rooney not to risk his long-term future by rushing his return from injury.
- These people are putting themselves in danger by physically being on or near to the railway lines and risk ing serious injury.
- After coming to New York, I decided to risk cycling again.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSee also
* roll the dice, take a chanceAnagrams
* ----hedge
English
Noun
(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.