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Definition of Agiotage
1. Noun. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
Definition of Agiotage
1. n. Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Definition of Agiotage
1. Noun. (dated trading) Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agiotage
1. the business of a broker [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agiotage
Literary usage of Agiotage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
"agiotage. Fr.—"Gambling in commercial shares, stocks, and government securities.
... agiotage ..."
2. Lives of the Most Eminent French Writers by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840)
"His pamphlets on finance, which attacked that system of gambling in the public
funds, called, in France, agiotage. which, while it enriches individuals, ..."
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