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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
verb practice arbitrage, as in the stock market
originAn unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
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