hedge fund
noun
an investment partnership that uses high-risk, speculative methods to obtain large, short-term profits.
hedge funds
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pluralof hedge fund.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Still, Aschenbrenner didn’t share performance updates with investors every month, as most hedge funds do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sophisticated hedge funds used them as funding shorts to amplify their bets on highflying semiconductor names, power stocks and shares of other companies cashing in on the massive AI buildout, McElligott said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
“But this time, with the overhang of the war, we think hedge funds might be continuing to blow up and their liquidation may not be completely over, so that’s going to create volatility.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Over the three trading days ending Tuesday of this week, hedge funds reduced their positions at a scale not seen in three years, according to Goldman Sachs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A trade magazine published the top seventy-five hedge funds of 2007, and Scion was nowhere on it—even though its returns put it at or near the very top.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
