agiotage

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Paris without the permission of Government, being suspected of stockjobbing (agiotage).

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  1. Speculation in stocks, etc.; stock-jobbing. [Not used in the United States.] Vanity and agiotage are, to a Parisian, the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor, Imaginary Conversations, xlvii.

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  • The agiotage, of course, was the profit of the bankers and brokers; a sum estimated at six millions of dollars a year, or ten per cent. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • What they mean by peace is agiotage, shares at a premium, and bubble companies. —  Endymion
  • An order was directly signed by Louis, according to which the police commissary, Chazot, was to arrest the manufacturer Leboure, of Lyons, and put him into a post-chaise, under the care of two gendarmes, who were to see him safe to Lyons, where he was to sign a promise of not returning to Paris without the permission of Government, being suspected of stockjobbing (agiotage). —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • Paris without the permission of Government, being suspected of stockjobbing (agiotage). —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • Life insurance gives you the lifetime reportage which lasts till you are alive and you bang on to attain time agiotage —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. French, from agioter, job or dabble in stocks, from agio, price, rate of exchange, discount: see agio.
 

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