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Arbitrage vs Arbitrariness - What's the difference?

arbitrage | arbitrariness |

As nouns the difference between arbitrage and arbitrariness

is that arbitrage is (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 while arbitrariness is the quality or state of being arbitrary.

As a verb arbitrage

is (finance) to employ.

arbitrage

English

(wikipedia arbitrage)

Noun

  • (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.
  • * {{quote-book, a. 1973, , The Intelligent Investor citation
    • , passage=But in recent years, for reasons we shall develop later, the field of "arbitrages and workouts" became riskier and less profitable.}}

    Derived terms

    * arbitrageur

    Related terms

    * arbiter * arbitrable * arbitrary * arbitrate * arbitration * arbitrator

    External links

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    Verb

    (arbitrag)
  • (finance) To employ
  • * {{quote-book, 1961, Maurece Schiller, Fortunes in Special Situations in the Stock Market citation
    • , passage=He has arbitraged by purchasing in one market and simultaneously selling the same or similar merchandise in another market. }}
  • (finance) To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
  • *
    • ----

    arbitrariness

    English

    (wikipedia arbitrariness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being arbitrary.

    • Synonyms

    * arbitrarity (much less common )