Finance. the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices.
Archaic. arbitration.
verb (used without object),ar·bi·traged,ar·bi·trag·ing.
Finance. to engage in arbitrage.
Origin of arbitrage
1470–80; <Middle French, equivalent to arbitr(er) to arbitrate, regulate (<Latin arbitrārī;see arbitrate) + -age-age
If you’re a DR media buyer, you saw a value arbitrage opportunity mid March-April as a bunch of brands pulled out of market.
‘Ready to spend’: Publishers are angling for election-wary advertisers’ Facebook budgets|Max Willens|October 2, 2020|Digiday
Other companies that are already using D-Wave’s new system include Accenture, which D-Wave said had used the hybrid solver to help a banking client “pilot quantum applications for currency arbitrage, credit scoring, and trading optimization.”
D-Wave unveils its most powerful quantum computer to date|Jeremy Kahn|September 29, 2020|Fortune
In essence, the trading represented an arbitrage of the speed of light itself.