arbitrage

Meanings

Plural: arbitrages

Noun

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
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.
Arbitration.

Verb

practice arbitrage, as in the stock market
To employ arbitrage
To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among

Origin / Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.

Scrabble Score: 12

arbitrage is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
arbitrage is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
arbitrage is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

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