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arbitrageur
noun
ar·bi·tra·geur
ˌär-bə-(ˌ)trä-ˈzhər
variants
or arbitrager
: one that practices arbitrage
Examples of arbitrageur in a Sentence
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There are mispricings, where two very similar securities are priced at different levels and arbitrageurs buy one and sell the other until the anomaly is eradicated.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
News commentators were fervent on the subject of insider trading; editorials in the Times were thunderous; the SEC ordered one arbitrageur to disgorge $50 million in fines, and another pleaded guilty to felony charges.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Ivan Boesky, who reached the pinnacle of fame and fortune as a high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur in the 1980s only to be exposed as a cheat in the insider-trading scandal that defined the era, has died.
—Greg Farrell, Fortune, 20 May 2024
Over the past 15 years, Drake has picked up this mantle as music’s great arbitrageur, using his singular celebrity to produce collaborations with then-emerging talent such as Migos and the Weeknd that cemented his own reputation as a tastemaker.
—W. David Marx, The Atlantic, 1 May 2024
Its team expects arbitrageurs and growing market liquidity to bring it back to par.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 7 May 2023
In just a few years, SBF went from an arbitrageur in a niche market to one of the most powerful people in crypto.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
Whereas the old school model for the manager of an electrical utility might have been Homer Simpson, now the model is closer to Gordon Gekko – a Wall Street arbitrageur that needs to make split-second decisions about how to supply consumer demand most efficiently.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 17 June 2021
Most infamously, Milken and Dennis Levine, Black’s colleague on the mergers and acquisitions desk, went to prison for insider trading, as did their co-conspirator, the arbitrageur Ivan Boesky.
—Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
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Word History
Etymology
arbitrage + -eur (as in entrepreneur) or -er entry 2
Note: Despite appearances, arbitrageur is not borrowed from French, which uses the derivative arbitragiste.
First Known Use
1870, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near arbitrageur
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“Arbitrageur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbitrageur. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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arbitrageur
noun
ar·bi·tra·geur
ˌär-bə-ˌträ-ˈzhər
variants
or arbitrager
: one that practices arbitrage
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