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1. (''n'') A bush to fling your apple core over when promenading in the countryside.  
{{G}}1. (''n'') A bush to fling your apple core over when promenading in the countryside.  


2. (''n''; ''v'') ''Finance'': to manage a [[market risk]] or [[credit risk]] by trading [[financial instrument]]s that will tend to have the opposite effect. This can be by selling the exact thing you bought — this is called [[delta-one]] [[hedging]], or trading a portfolio of instruments whose performance, when combined, is negatively [[correlation|correlated]] to the [[risk]] you are trying to [[hedge]].
2. (''n''; ''v'') ''Finance'': to manage a [[market risk]] or [[credit risk]] by trading [[financial instrument]]s that will tend to have the opposite effect. This can be by selling the exact thing you bought — this is called [[delta-one]] [[hedging]], or trading a portfolio of instruments whose performance, when combined, is negatively [[correlation|correlated]] to the [[risk]] you are trying to [[hedge]].

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1. (n) A bush to fling your apple core over when promenading in the countryside.

2. (n; v) Finance: to manage a market risk or credit risk by trading financial instruments that will tend to have the opposite effect. This can be by selling the exact thing you bought — this is called delta-one hedging, or trading a portfolio of instruments whose performance, when combined, is negatively correlated to the risk you are trying to hedge.

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