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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???b??t???/, /???.b?.t??d?/
• Rhymes: -???, -?d?
• Hyphenation: ar?bi?trage

Noun

arbitrage (countable and uncountable, plural arbitrages)

1. (finance) 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.
2. (archaic) Arbitration.

Derived terms

• arbitrageur

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• arbitrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arbitrage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

arbitrage (third-person singular simple present arbitrages, present participle arbitraging, simple past and past participle arbitraged)

1. (intransitive, finance) To employ arbitrage
2. (transitive, finance) To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arbitrage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.bi?tra?.??/
• Hyphenation: ar?bi?tra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

arbitrage f (plural arbitrages)

1. (sports) refereeing
2. (dispute resolution) arbitration

Derived terms

• arbitragecommissie

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arbitrase

French

Etymology

From arbitrer +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.bi.t?a?/

Noun

arbitrage m (plural arbitrages)

1. arbitration (the act or process of arbitrating)
2. (finance) arbitrage
3. (economics) trade-off
4. (sports) refereeing

Related terms

• arbitre
• arbitrer

Further reading

• “arbitrage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English arbitrarie, Latin arbitr?rius (“arbitrary, uncertain”), from arbiter (“witness, on-looker, listener, judge, overseer”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?.t??.?i/, /???.b?.t?i/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /???.b?.t??(?).?i/

Adjective

arbitrary (comparative more arbitrary, superlative most arbitrary)

1. (usually of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

2. Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed.
   • 1937/1938, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born

   • 1906, Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?

3. (mathematics) Any, out of all that are possible.

4. Determined by independent arbiter.
5. (linguistics) Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

arbitrary (plural arbitraries)

1. Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.

Further reading

• arbitrary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arbitrary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arbitrariness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia