English Dictionary

hedge one's bets

verb

(bookmaking) To place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses. / (idiomatic) To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one's options open.

I always hedge my bets when it comes to investing in the stock market.

意味（1）

(bookmaking) To place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one's options open.

Whether Glass will ever become a mass-market product, and smartglasses take off, is still unclear. Google is hedging its bets, however, with its new Android Wear and smartwatch initiative which is expected to be shown off at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco later this week.