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say it: ahrb
arb is a noun meaning "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)". It is pronounced /ˈɑɹb/ — ahrb. It carries one recorded sense.
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)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for arb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.