单词 | agiotage |
释义 | agiotagen. Now historical. The business of money-changing; (also) speculation in stocks, stockjobbing. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing exchange1377 wisseling1463 money-changing1623 agiotage1726 agio1817 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] jobbing1606 stock-jobbing1692 stockbroking1792 stockholding1830 stockbrokerage1837 stockbrokery1874 agiotage1880 stock-jobbery1882 1726 Macky tr. Labadie Adventures of Pomponius II. xxvii. 77 The paper Agiotage began to sink. 1792 T. F. Hill Observ. Politics France 69 The expulsion of small money and the want of small assignats, had rendered this chance also a business of agiotage. 1828 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. III. ix. 146 Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 10 The Minister of Commerce and Public Works has issued an order against agiotage. It is forbidden to impose any agio in changing the pontifical currency. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. 61 What they mean by peace is agiotage, shares at a premium, and bubble companies. 1959 E. Pound Thrones xcix. 55 The scholar..has eye on grain-cut in exchange agiotage, profit motive, In and out of the yamen. 2007 C. Crittenden J. Strauss & Vienna i. 36 The practice of agiotage was widespread in Vienna not only among businessmen but also among servants and skilled workers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1726 |
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