Meaning of arbitrage in English
Verb
arbitrageDefinitions
1. practice arbitrage, as in the stock marketNoun
arbitrageEtymology
late Middle English (originally denoting the exercise of individual judgement): from French, from arbitrer‘give judgement’, from Latin arbitrari (see arbitrate). The current sense dates from the late 19th centuryDefinitions
1. a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in priceExamples
- « 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 »