HEDGE FUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedge fund mean? 

• HEDGE FUND (noun)
  The noun HEDGE FUND has 1 sense:

1. a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging

  Familiarity information: HEDGE FUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDGE FUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hedge fund; hedgefund

Hypernyms ("hedge fund" is a kind of...):

fund; investment company; investment firm; investment trust (a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies)

 Context examples 

Capricorn also rules big financial transactions, so you might work on the stock exchange or for a hedge fund or venture capital firm.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)