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.
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