Agiotage

2 definitions found

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

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and
           hydrogen of life.                        --Landor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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