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agiotage definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio, agiotage, premium, exchange premium]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Agiotage Ag"i*o*tage, n. [F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio.] Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. --Landor.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Com.) Stock-jobbing.