Agio

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agio \Ag"i*o\, n.; pl. {Agios}. [It. aggio exchange, discount,
     premium, the same word as agio ease. See Ease.] (Com.)
     The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it
     is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or
     discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called
     agio.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "agio":
     abatement, allowance, bank discount, breakage, cash discount,
     chain discount, charge-off, concession, cut, deduction,
     depreciation, discount, drawback, kickback, penalty,
     penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut,
     rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, rollback, salvage, setoff,
     tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling,
     write-off
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AGIO, aggio. This term is used to denote the difference of price between the
  value of bank notes and nominal money, and the coin of the country.  Encyc.