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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Arbitration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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verb
To employ arbitrage
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: business, finance
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verb
To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, finance
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noun
a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: investing, investment
Narrower terms: risk arbitrage, takeover arbitrage
verb
practice arbitrage, as in the stock market
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: trade, merchandise
History
An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Across languages
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