arbitrage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/, /ˈɑɹ.bɪ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, -ɪdʒ
- 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, 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.
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- (archaic) Arbitration.
Derived terms
- arbitrage pricing model
- arbitrage pricing theory
- arbitrageur
Related terms
- arbiter
- arbitrable
- arbitrary
- arbitrate
- arbitration
- arbitrator
Translations
market activity
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Further reading
- arbitrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- arbitrage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Verb
arbitrage (third-person singular simple present arbitrages, present participle arbitraging, simple past and past participle arbitraged)
- (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.
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- (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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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French arbitrage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑr.biˈtraː.ʒə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧tra‧ge
- Rhymes: -aːʒə
Noun
arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)
- (sports) refereeing
- (dispute resolution) arbitration
Derived terms
- arbitragecommissie
Descendants
- → Indonesian: arbitrase
French
Etymology
From arbitrer + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʁ.bi.tʁaʒ/
Audio (file)
Noun
arbitrage m (plural arbitrages)
- arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)
- (finance) arbitrage
- (economics) trade-off
- (sports) refereeing
Related terms
- arbitre
- arbitrer
Further reading
- “arbitrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.