Dictionary entry

Hedge one's bets

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Definition

hedge / hedʒ/ n ၁။ ခ်ံဳတန္းစည္း႐ိုး။ ခ႐ိုး။ a privet hedge. ❍ HOUSE ၂။ ~ ( against sth ) အရန္းအတား။ buy gold as a hedge (ie to protect one's money) against inflation. v ၁။ ခ်ံဳတန္း၊ ပင္တန္းမ်ားျဖင့္ၿခံစည္း႐ိုး ကာသည္။ ၂။ ေဝ့လည္ ေၾကာင္ပတ္ေျဖသည္။ Answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’—stop hedging! ၃။ ~ sb/ sth (about/ around ) (with sth) ( esp passive ) ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္သည္။ ကန္႔သတ္သည္။ His belief was hedged with doubt. ❍ My life is hedged about with petty regulations. ❍ We must be careful not to hedge our negotiating position. ❏ hedge against sth [ PHRV ] အရန္းအတားလုပ္သည္။ ways of hedging against the exchange rate risk. ❏ hedge one's bets [ IDM ]ႏွစ္ဖက္ခြထားသည္။ hedge one's bets by backing both teams to win. ❏ hedge sb in [ PHRV ] ကန္႔သတ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္သည္။ ပိတ္ပင္ သည္။ ❏ hedging n [U] စည္း႐ိုးပင္မ်ားကိုစိုက္ျခင္း၊ ညိႇျခင္း။ hedging implements / plants.

Examples

  1. We crawled through a gap in the hedge.
  2. A high hawthorn hedge