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