Agiotage
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices. countable, dated, uncountable
- 2 a fee charged for exchanging currencies wordnet
- 3 speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. wordnet
Etymology
From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.