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