arbitrage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑːɹbɪˌtɹɑːʒ/, /ˈɑːɹ.bɪ.tɹɪdʒ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, -ɑː(ɹ)bɪtɹɪdʒ
- Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧trage
Noun
arbitrage (countable and uncountable, plural arbitrages)
- (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], 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.
- (archaic) arbitration
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Translations
market activity
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Further reading
- “arbitrage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “arbitrage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Verb
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- (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.
- (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
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French arbitrage.
Pronunciation
Noun
arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)
- (sports) refereeing
- (dispute resolution) arbitration
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
arbitrage m (plural arbitrages)
- arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)
- (finance) arbitrage
- (economics) trade-off
- (sports) refereeing
Related terms
Further reading
- “arbitrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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