speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange
Word origin
C19: French, from agio
agiotage in American English
(ˈædʒiətɪdʒ)
noun
the business of dealing in foreign exchange
Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ F, equiv. to agiot(er) to speculate (agiot exchange ‹ It aggioagio) + -age-age]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, blouse, exogenous, myth, takeoff-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'agiotage' in a sentence
agiotage
A rich buyer and agiotage demand appeared.
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