arbitrage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: arbitrage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for arbitrage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
arbitrage 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Arbitrage \Ar"bi*trage\, n. [F., fr. arbiter to give judgment, L. arbitrari.] 1. Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic] 2. (Com) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.