agiotage
agiotage · agiotages
Stock exchange businessStock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, dated, uncountable)Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices.
speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange.
Origin
From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.
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Forms
plural: agiotagesSynonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- a fee charged for exchanging currencies:agiopremiumexchange premium
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable