| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ar·bi·trage |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  är b -träzh |
| NOUN: | The purchase of securities on one market for immediate resale on another market in order to profit from a price discrepancy. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ar·bi·traged, ar·bi·trag·ing, ar·bi·trag·es
To be involved in arbitrage. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, arbitration, from Old French, from arbitrer, to judge, from Latin arbitr r , to give judgment. See arbitrate.
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