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In the context of M&As, arbs are speculators who attempt to profit from the difference between the bid price and the target firm’s current share price.

arb

Language; Slang

An arbitrageur; a market speculator. (Securities markets.) * The arbs are at it again, buying up companies like hot cakes. * I wanted to be an arb, but it takes about forty ...

ARB

Technology; Information technology

Architecture Review Board. This group oversees the OpenGL specification and extensions to it.

ARB (arb)

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An oral medicine that lowers blood pressure. Arb stands for angiotensin receptor blocker. For people with diabetes, especially those who have protein (albumin) in the urine, it ...

ineffability

Philosophy; Philosophy; General philosophy; General philosophy

Something "that cannot be expressed or described in language/words". It is concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words (or language in general), ...

idea

Philosophy; General philosophy

An idea is the content of cognition, a perception in consciousness of an object, which is the main thing you are thinking about and is therefore often deemed a personal view. ...

Godel’s incompleteness theorem

Philosophy; General philosophy

See completeness.

ethical egoism

Philosophy; General philosophy

See psychological egoism.

existentialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophic movement primarily associated with the mid-20th century, in part arising from phenomenology (see J. P. Sarte, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, A. Camus, etc. ) that insists ...

extensional

Philosophy; General philosophy

Having, or presupposing, a use of terms that is wholly determined by what falls under them (in this actual world). The meaning of a term in the extensional sense is given just by ...

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