arbitrage
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The practice of profiting from price differences for the same asset in different markets.
Hedge funds engaged in merger arbitrage, buying the target's shares in anticipation of the bid completing.
Business noun
Profit made from price differences in different markets.
The fund booked millions on a brief currency arbitrage.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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