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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Agiotage

· Ag·i·o·tage · IPA
01 n. Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
  1. 1.
    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.