1.
[syn: agio, agiotage, premium, exchange premium]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Agio \Ag"i*o\, n.; pl. Agios. [It. aggio exchange, discount,
premium, the same word as agio ease. See Ease.] (Com.)
The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it
is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or
discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called
agio.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
agio
n 1: a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio,
agiotage, premium, exchange premium]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "agio":
abatement, allowance, bank discount, breakage, cash discount,
chain discount, charge-off, concession, cut, deduction,
depreciation, discount, drawback, kickback, penalty,
penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut,
rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, rollback, salvage, setoff,
tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling,
write-off
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
AGIO, aggio. This term is used to denote the difference of price between the
value of bank notes and nominal money, and the coin of the country. Encyc.