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HEDGE FUND
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I. (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
Synonyms:
hedge fund; hedgefund
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
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