hedger
C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A market participant who trades to reduce an existing risk rather than to profit from price moves.
Farmers act as natural hedgers, selling futures to lock in a price for a crop still in the ground.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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