agio

4 definitions found

agio - 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]

agio - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  agio
      n 1: a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio,
           agiotage, premium, exchange premium]

agio - 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.
  
  
  

agio - 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