"Hedging is an insurance-like investment that protects you from risks of any potential losses of your finances. Hedging is similar to insurance as we take an insurance cove to protect ourselves from one or the other loss. For example, if we have an asset and we would like to protect it from floods."
https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/hedging/
Argument with friends - they say that hedging isn't a word. Ghost game help...
It isn't on any dictionary so they say I'm stupid, but I swear it's literally a financial term...
EDIT: The argument is settled, my challenger lost the letter.