Hypertext Webster Gateway: "agiotage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
agiotage
n : a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: {agio}, {premium},
{exchange premium}]
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