arbitrage
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/, /ˈɑɹ.bɪ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, -ɪdʒ
- Hyphenation: ar‧bi‧trage
Noun edit
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], HarperCollins, published 2003, 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 edit
market activity
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Further reading edit
- “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 edit
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[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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)
- (sports) refereeing
- (dispute resolution) arbitration
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: arbitrase
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
arbitrage m (plural arbitrages)
- arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)
- (finance) arbitrage
- (economics) trade-off
- (sports) refereeing
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: arbitrage
- → English: arbitrage
- → Polish: arbitraż
- → Romanian: arbitraj
- → Russian: арбитра́ж (arbitráž)
- → Mongolian: арбитраж (arbitraž)
- → Turkish: arbitraj
- → Ukrainian: арбітра́ж (arbitráž)
Further reading edit
- “arbitrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.