arbitrage
[ahr-bi-trahzh for 1, 3; ahr-bi-trij for 2]
- Finance. the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices.
- Archaic. arbitration.
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- Finance. to engage in arbitrage.
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Origin of arbitrage
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Contemporary Examples
In essence, the trading represented an arbitrage of the speed of light itself.
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Our top two cities reflect the importance of this arbitrage opportunity.
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Earlier this year, Richard Gere received plenty of kudos for his shady CEO in Arbitrage.
In financial markets, arbitrage is all about trading that minimizes risk and maximizes returns.
Channeling his best Madoff—with a dash of Paulson and Falcone—Richard Gere plays a sneaky financier in ‘Arbitrage.’
Historical Examples
Arbitrage operations are for these reasons resorted to frequently by one country in supplying the requirements of another.
In ordinary times those engaged in arbitrage operate with a very small margin of profit.
Arbitrage operations with distant countries such as India are large and mainly profitable.
They feed off market failures, market imbalances, arbitrage opportunities, shortages and inefficiencies.
After the RainSam Vaknin
arbitrage
- finance
- the purchase of currencies, securities, or commodities in one market for immediate resale in others in order to profit from unequal prices
- (as modifier)arbitrage operations
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Word Origin
C15: from French, from arbitrer to arbitrate
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Word Origin and History for arbitrage
n.
"exercise of the function of an arbitrator," late 15c., from Old French arbitrage "arbitration, judgment," from arbitrer "to arbitrate, judge," from Late Latin arbitrari, from Latin arbiter (see arbiter).
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