Arbitrage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The purchase of securities on one market for immediate resale on another market in order to profit from a price discrepancy.
  • verb-intransitive. To be involved in arbitrage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The practice of quickly buying and selling foreign currencies in different markets in order to make a profit
  • n. The purchase of the stock of a future takeover target, with the expectation that the stock will be sold to the person executing the takeover at a higher price
  • n. Any market activity in which a commodity is bought and then sold quickly, for a profit which substantially exceeds the transaction cost
  • v. To employ arbitrage
  • v. To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.
  • n. A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange).
  • n. the simultaneous or near simultaneous purchase and sale of the same or closely linked securities or commodities in different markets to make a profit on the (often small) differences in price.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Arbitration. R. Cobden.
  • n. The calculation of the relative value at the same time, at two or more places, of stocks, bonds, or funds of any sort, including exchange, with a view to taking advantage of favorable circumstances or differences in payments or other transactions; arbitration of exchange.
  • n. The business of bankers which is founded on calculations of the temporary differences in the price of securities, and is carried on through a simultaneous purchase in the cheaper and sale in the dearer market.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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 in the stock market
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    arbitrages   
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    merchandise    trade   
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    fixed-income    merger    equities    arbitrageur    portfolio