| n. | 1. | Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. |
| 2. | (Com.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see | |
| 3. | (Finance) 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. |
| Noun | 1. | arbitrage - 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 |
| Verb | 1. | arbitrage - practice arbitrage, as in the stock market |
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