arb

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

arb (countable and uncountable, plural arbs)

1. (finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
2. (countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
3. (countable, informal) An arboretum.
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arb (third-person singular simple present arbs, present participle arbing, simple past and past participle arbed)

1. (finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.

• Rab, Bra, ABR, bra, bar-, bar, BAR, RBA, Bar, abr., Bar.

• ar (used before consonant sounds)
• ar b’ (superseded)

arb (copular form used before adjective, adverb, or pronoun beginning with vowels)

1. Introduces an indirect relative clause; present/future tense

   duine arb ionann é agus gach duine eile ― a person who is the same as everyone else

   duine arb as an mbaile céanna leat féin é ― a person who is from the same town as yourself

   an fear arb é a mhac an t-iascaire ― the man whose son is the fisherman

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arb”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *arpa.

arb

1. lot, fate, destiny