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Arbitrage

Ar′bi-trage

,
Noun.
[F., fr.
arbiter
to give judgment, L.
arbitrari
.]
1.
Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.
[Archaic]
2.
(Com.)
A traffic in bills of exchange (see
Arbitration of Exchange
).

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arbitrage

arbitrage

English

Noun

arbitrage (countable and uncountable, plural arbitrages)

  1. (finance) A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
    • a. 1973, Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor, 2003 HarperCollins ed. edition, page 174:
      But in recent years, for reasons we shall develop later, the field of "arbitrages and workouts" became riskier and less profitable.
  2. (archaic) arbitration

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External links

  • arbitrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • arbitrage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Verb

arbitrage (third-person singular simple present arbitrages, present participle arbitraging, simple past and past participle arbitraged)

  1. (intransitive, finance) To employ arbitrage
    • 1961, Maurece Schiller, Fortunes in Special Situations in the Stock Market, page iv:
      He has arbitraged by purchasing in one market and simultaneously selling the same or similar merchandise in another market.
  2. (transitive, finance) To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
    • 2001, Frederic S. Mishkin, Prudential Supervision: What Works and what Doesn't, page 98:
      Indeed, as banks become more adept at internal risk classifications, their incentives to arbitrage economic and regulatory capital can only increase

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Etymology

Borrowing from French arbitrage.

Noun

arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)

  1. (sports) refereeing
  2. (dispute resolution) arbitration

French

Etymology

arbitrer + -age

Noun

arbitrage m (plural arbitrages)

  1. arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)
  2. (finance) arbitrage
  3. (economics) trade-off
  4. (sports) refereeing

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