Meaning of ARBITRAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'ârbi`trâzh
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- [n] 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
- [v] practice arbitrage, as of stocks
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| | See Also: | | investing, investment, merchandise, risk arbitrage, takeover arbitrage, trade | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ar"bi*trage\, n. [F., fr. arbiter to give judgment,
L. arbitrari.]
1. Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.
[Archaic]
2. (Com) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of
Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing
values at the same time in different markets.
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