The story
- French · borrowed fromarbitrage
- English todayarbitrage
An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.