Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A banker or a broker who engages in arbitrage operations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
arbitrageur .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who participates in
arbitrage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)
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Examples
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One arbitrager already has seen Mr. Greifeld three times.
At Nasdaq, a Pitch and Woo Gina Chon 2011
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Ivan Boesky, the former arbitrager, agreed to pay $100 million to settle SEC charges, but half of that amount was disgorgement of illicit profits.
Rajaratnam Ordered to Pay Record SEC Penalty Chad Bray 2011
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Didn't he torture a third and also apparently not guilty arbitrager until he pled guilty to a single count of mail fraud just to make it all stop?
Dan Collins: Rudy Giuliani Hammers Obama and Occupy Wall Street Movement Dan Collins 2011
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Ivan Boesky, an arbitrager, was willing to pay, sometimes with suitcases of cash, for advanced knowledge of which firms were being purchased.
A Short (Sometimes Profitable) History of Private Equity John Steele Gordon 2012
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In the 1980s, arbitrager Ivan Boesky used the lavish lobby of New York's Plaza Hotel to exchange cash for tips in what would become the most famous insider-trading scheme of the era.
From the Plaza Hotel to Starbucks, Illicit Acts Find New Home Susan Pulliam 2011
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The dropoff is Farallon's sharpest by far since Mr. Steyer, a former Goldman Sachs risk-arbitrager, started the firm in 1986 in partnership with San Francisco buyout firm Hellman
Farallon Regroups After Knockdown Jenny Strasburg 2010
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So I am not inclined to spend Labor Day weekend as a risk arbitrager, worrying about the twists in either the Potash or 3PAR deals.
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While Laertes may have tried to return "in secret," the King's adept intelligence-gathering network picked up his whereabouts as fast as an arbitrager gone short.
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises 2010
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The dropoff is Farallon's sharpest by far since Mr. Steyer, a former Goldman Sachs risk-arbitrager, started the firm in 1986 in partnership with San Francisco buyout firm Hellman
Farallon Regroups After Knockdown Jenny Strasburg 2010
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The dropoff is Farallon's sharpest by far since Mr. Steyer, a former Goldman Sachs risk-arbitrager, started the firm in 1986 in partnership with San Francisco buyout firm Hellman
Farallon Regroups After Knockdown Jenny Strasburg 2010
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