hedgefund

1. 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

   Synonymshedge fund

   Broaderinvestment company

Other forms of hedgefund

plural

hedgefunds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hedgefund

What does hedgefund mean?

hedgefund means "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".

How many syllables are in hedgefund?

hedgefund has 3 syllables: hed-ge-fund. The stress falls on "hed".

What is another word for hedgefund?

Close synonyms include hedge fund. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hedgefund a common word?

hedgefund is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.