HEDGING Antonyms

• preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

• the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)

• preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

• perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

• make a set of changes permanent

• give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

• cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

• confer a trust upon

• make an investment

• engage in or perform

• transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved

• a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

• a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

• the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred

• the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

• expose to a chance of loss or damage

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

• talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion

• reflect deeply on a subject

• invest at a risk

• any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

• a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

• proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• the act of gambling

• the money risked on a gamble

• stake on the outcome of an issue

• maintain with or as if with a bet