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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices. countable, dated, uncountable
2. 2
   a fee charged for exchanging currencies wordnet
3. 3
   speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

agioagioexchange premiumflierflutterflyer

Etymology

From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.

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