Definition of Agiotage. Meaning of Agiotage. Synonyms of Agiotage

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Definition of Agiotage

Agiotage
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.

Meaning of Agiotage from wikipedia

- stock-jobbing, and seizing their ideas he began to regard stock-jobbing, or agiotage (known in English as "arbitrage"), as the source of all evil, and to attack...
- joint-stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy. In Marxian...