\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.