Unadapted borrowing fromFrench arbitrage arbitrer ( “ to arbitrate ” ) ; seearbitrate
arbitrage (countable anduncountable plural arbitrages
( finance ) market activity in which asecurity ,commodity ,currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order toprofit from price differences between the markets.a. 1973 Benjamin Graham ,The Intelligent Investor [1] 2003 , page174 :But in recent years, for reasons we shall develop later, the field of "arbitrages and workouts" became riskier and less profitable.
( archaic ) Arbitration .“arbitrage ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “arbitrage ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC arbitrage (third-person singular simple present arbitrages present participle arbitraging simple past and past participle arbitraged
( intransitive , finance ) arbitrage 1961 Fortunes in Special Situations in the Stock Market [2] He hasarbitraged by purchasing in one market and simultaneously selling the same or similar merchandise in another market.
( transitive , finance ) 2001 Prudential Supervision: What Works and what Doesn't , page98 :Indeed, as banks become more adept at internal risk classifications, their incentives toarbitrage economic and regulatory capital can only increase
Unadapted borrowing fromFrench arbitrage
IPA (key ) : /ˌɑr.biˈtraː.ʒə/ Hyphenation:ar‧bi‧tra‧ge Rhymes:-aːʒə arbitrage f plural arbitrages
( sports ) refereeing ( dispute resolution ) arbitration Fromarbitrer -age
arbitrage m plural arbitrages
arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)( finance ) arbitrage ( economics ) trade-off ( sports ) refereeing 
