hedge-v; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: minimize loss or risk

Commentary:
NOTE: Almost all financial usages should fall into this sense.

Examples:
Hedge your bets.
They have hedged the anticipated production for residual natural resources.
It was assumed that the price volatility would be hedged.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: hedge.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 2: limit, restrict, restrain

Commentary:
NOTE: compare to sense 4; this sense is abstract

Examples:
He entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom.
It was a promise, but hedged in with so many ifs and buts that I wouldn't rely on it.
He found her in the same sheltered spot, hedged in from the gaze of the world.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: hedge.01

Sense Number 3: be evasive

Examples:
But they hedged the defense's request for information obtained by NSA surveillance.
He hedged the question of whether or when he would resign.
They claim that women tend to hedge more and to seek common ground in conversation.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 4: physically enclose, border

Examples:
They hedged the area with barbed wires.
These were hedged in by a wall of Italian sunflowers.
I want to hedge in the yard so that little kids can play there.
The animals were hedged in.
Towering peaks on the north and east hedged in the valley in which I lived.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
hedge_in 1

Sense Number 5: trim bushes or hedges

Examples:
We would tackle our yard and have it mowed and hedged in a couple of hours.
Plants in half of each fertilizer treatment were hedged in the summer.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM