Etymology

agiotage

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Today it means: Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices. Full definition →

French agiotage
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  1. French · borrowed fromagiotage
  2. English todayagiotage

From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.

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