What is the meaning of arbitrage?

Subtopics: risk arbitrage 

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 price and sells at the higher price.

verb

  • Practice arbitrage, as in the stock market. .
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