Definitions for agio

agio ag·i·o

Spelling: [aj-ee-oh]
IPA: /ˈædʒ iˌoʊ/

Agio is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in agio (agio).

Definitions for agio

noun

  1. a premium on money in exchange.
  2. an allowance for the difference in value of two currencies.
  3. an allowance given or taken on bills of exchange from other countries, as to balance exchange expenses.
  4. agiotage.

Origin of agio

1675-85; Italian a(g)gio exchange, premium, ultimately Medieval Greek allágion, derivative of Greek allágē literally, change, barter; compare Venetian azo, Medieval Latin lazius

Examples for agio

All those who have an account in bank, may demand to be paid in ready money, but they cannot require the agio.

The scarcity is so great, that the agio of the bank, which is commonly at four or five per cent, fell to one and a half.

They more nearly do so in India, and the possibility of agio is, doubtless, greater there.

In so far as substitution is possible, there is no room for an agio.

The Stockjobber has no country, except his own black pool of agio.

If bank-notes of one dollar could be issued, the agio would be less still.

Behold thus this agio establishment, and the money of the bank, worth five per cent more than the current money.

One shilling and twopence were lost in agio, in exchanging my small remaining stock of Prussian dollars into Austrian gold.

The question of the agio of the Hamburg banco system belongs rather to the history of banking.

Now there's an agio on gold, you pay five kreutzers for every Louis.

Word Value for agio
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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