Agiotage
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Speculation in stocks, etc.; stock-jobbing.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
Stock exchange business; especially,
stockjobbing
, manipulation of securities prices.
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noun.
a fee charged for exchanging currencies
Word Usage
"Paris without the permission of Government, being suspected of stockjobbing (agiotage)."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
charge