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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
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However, hedge fund manager Eric Jackson sees big gains ahead for the quantum computing space.
—Fred Imbert,yun Li, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
His hedge fund, Key Square Capital, also made money by betting that U.S. inflation in 2022 would prove longer lasting than the Federal Reserve had predicted.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
The outlook seemed to change five years ago, when Cohen, a longtime hedge fund manager, purchased the team for $2.4 billion.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
The identity of Apex’s owner is much less mysterious: The winning bidder was Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund manager and founder of the company Citadel.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1966, in the meaning defined above
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“Hedge fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hedge%20fund. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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hedge fund
see fund sense 2
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