hedge fund

noun

: an investing group usually in the form of a limited partnership that employs speculative techniques in the hope of obtaining large capital gains

Examples of hedge fund in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Oks, who attended Oxford University, worked for a hedge fund and became a journalist and writer. — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Last year, hedge funds were offering to buy claims that insurers had against Southern California Edison for the Eaton fire, leading to calls for reform. — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images DeepSeek, the lab that put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map last January, has long been financed by High-Flyer Quant, its founder Liang Wenfeng’s hedge fund. — Anniek Bao,elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Taken together, experts say, the moves paint a picture of a hedge fund manager willing to buy when others are forced to sell, take profits when opportunities change and rotate capital toward companies with strong underlying businesses. — Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hedge fund

• and
• bund
• gunned
• hund
• mund
• shunned
• stunned
• fecund
• refund
• rotund
• secund

Legal Definition

hedge fund

see also:

fund sense 2