What is "agiotage"

Agiotage \Ag"i*o*tage\, n. [F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio.] 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.

n. (context dated trading English) Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices.

n. a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio, premium, exchange premium]