(n.) Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.
(n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.
Example Sentences:
(1) In no time, Unilever’s shareholder register would have been populated by merger arbitrage funds.
(2) "Long term, the impact of this approach is that it should provide incentives for firms to dismantle corporate or capital structures that might have been developed to exploit tax or regulatory arbitrage," Myners said.
(3) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(4) HFTs employing latency arbitrage examine current market information to predict immediate price movements, essentially computing the best prices available before the exchange has even had a chance to update its price quote.
(5) In her lecture Cohen outlines the deal we have struck with the “surveillance-innovation complex”, involving a deeply worrying complicity between state and private actors - “a mutually satisfactory game of regulatory arbitrage”.
(6) This time, it relies on the kind of jurisdictional arbitrage familiar to so many lawless sites the world over: because its technical collection points are physically outside the US, it does not require authorization from either Congress or the Fisa court, even though the dragnet inevitably captures large amounts of data from Americans.
(7) More complex systems lead to a greater amount of arbitrage.
(8) For the sole purpose of repaying euro-denominated debts with a revived local currency, an official exchange rate between the euro and the local currency would need to be fixed with the ECB , under strict controls over such operations and capital flows and to prevent speculative arbitrage.
(9) Here are some tax techniques used by different companies over the years • Cross-border tax arbitrage • Hybrid debt instruments • Hybrid entities • Thin capitalisation • Thick capitalisation • Debt dumping • Loss buying • Outward domestication • Corporate inversions • Tax-efficient supply chain management • Intangibles fragmentation • Dividend buying • Company migrations • Dividend traps • Dutch sandwich • Swiss roundabout (long obsolete) • Value shifting • Defeased leasing • Capital allowance buying • Rent factoring • This article was amended on Thursday 5 February 2009.
(10) Better coordination has reduced the risk of regulatory arbitrage, and address the threat that banks will be, as the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King memorably put it , “international in life but national in death.” The US and the UK took the lead on reform, and Europe has been catching up.
(11) A financial transaction tax needs careful design, must be set at a modest rate without creating negative economic consequences and must minimise international tax arbitrage.
(12) Regulators and supervisors must protect consumers and investors, support market discipline, avoid adverse impacts on other countries, reduce the scope for regulatory arbitrage, support competition and dynamism, and keep pace with innovation in the marketplace.
(13) Privacy International said it had long suspected that members of Five Eyes have been playing "a game of jurisdictional arbitrage to sidestep domestic laws governing interception and collection of data".
(14) This requires a smart arbitrage by the news producers.
(15) The Globes have also found room for the unexpected reward: no one was tipping Richard Gere for the hedge fund thriller Arbitrage , or Jack Black for the mortician-murder comedy Bernie.
(16) It seems fanciful to imagine Britons who spent two weeks glued to the TV will, like Stakhanovites, suddenly meet higher norms in car production, healthcare and financial arbitrage.
(17) More surprises included a nod for Nicole Kidman as best supporting actress for her role in The Paperboy, and Richard Gere as best actor for Arbitrage.
(18) Trendon T Shavers, from KcKinney in Texas, was the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), allegedly raised a total of 700,000 Bitcoins in 2011 and 2012 – then worth about $4.5m – for his scheme, claiming that he made his profits on market arbitrage.
(19) Moreover, the higher the gap between official interest rates and the higher rates on mortgage lending as a result of macro-prudential restrictions, the more room there is for regulatory arbitrage.
(20) A burgeoning trade in exploiting the anomalies of cross-border "tax arbitrage" was also curtailed.
Spread
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Spread
(v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
(v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
(v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
(v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
(v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
(v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
(v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
(v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
(v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
(v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
(v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
(n.) Extent; compass.
(n.) Expansion of parts.
(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
() imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(3) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(4) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(7) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(8) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(9) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
(10) Prognoses differ according to the histological type of carcinoma, but therapeutic results are also influenced by osseous involvement or by spread to the lymph nodes.
(11) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
(12) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
(13) Histologically, all 17 lesions were squamous cell carcinomas; 10 lesions being mucosal carcinomas, the remaining 7 lesions mucosal carcinomas spreading beyond the epithelial layer.
(14) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
(15) Field sizes varied from 3 X 4 to 3 X 12 cm depending on lesion spreading.
(16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(17) The average length of spreading of the whole type was 14.5 mm, and the average length of spreading of the basal type, 19.6 mm.
(18) If mammography becomes a wide spread screening method for early detection of breast cancer, the number of non-true interval cancers could be a feed back on the effectiveness of the screening.
(19) The present studies examined the effect of cytosolic protons on electrotonic spread and conduction velocity in cardiac Purkinje fibers.
(20) The most effective method of combined therapy of locally spread rhinopharyngeal cancer was polychemotherapy (bleomycetin, methotrexate, vinblastine, and cyclophosphamide) before irradiation with subsequent maintenance cyclophosphamide chemotherapy once in 4 weeks for 3-6 months.