arbitrageur
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- noun
- /ˌɑːrbɪˈtrɑːʒər/
- Specialized
- And so over time those arbitrages end up getting eaten away by the arbitrageurs, but they still do exist from time to time.
Examples
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The arbitrageur was king.
Academic text (2005) -
Arbitrageurs are very intelligent these days.
Blog text (21) -
The guy's a turbo arbitrageur!
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Make the middle class fight itself to the death, while the arbitrageurs laugh all the way home from the bank.
Blog text (27) -
Or alternatively, if the spot price is above the futures price at the end, then these arbitrageurs will say, hey, I'll take delivery.
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But notice the cost of this system—it requires constant exchanges with arbitrageurs to keep the value of the dollar constant.
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Not since the groundbreaking 1980s investigation that led to the jailing of arbitrageur Ivan Boesky has Wall Street been so shaken.
Blog text (4) -
An arbitrageur in the network can exploit nonequilibrium price differences in several different ways; sometimes this will mean executing a transaction that is not physically possible, like selling gas to a customer who is upstream.
Academic text (1993) -
Klingman, a handsome 50-year-old arbitrageur, gasps in barely controlled fear as his Armani suit soaks up a black pool of oil.
Fiction book (1992) -
The arbitrageur bought stocks on one exchange and sold them on another to profit from the price difference.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person or company that buys and sells things to make money
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A person who buys and sells in different markets to make money from price differences
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A person who buys and sells the same thing in different markets to make a profit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word arbitrageur comes from the old word arbiter, which means 'judge' or a person who decides. So an arbitrageur is like a 'market judge' who chooses where to buy and sell the same thing quickly to make a profit from price differences.