agiotage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a fee charged for exchanging currencies
    premium; agio; exchange premium.

WordNet

Ag"i*o*tage noun
Etymology
F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913