arbitrage

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (to arbitrate); see arbitrate.

Pronunciation

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  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/, /ˈɑɹ.bɪ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, -ɪdʒ
  • Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧trage

Noun

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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[1], HarperCollins, published 2003, 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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Verb

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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[2], 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

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Unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɑr.biˈtraː.ʒə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧tra‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

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arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)

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

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: arbitrase

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From arbitrer +‎ -age.

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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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