Agio

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
agio
    n 1: a fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: {agio},
         {agiotage}, {premium}, {exchange premium}]
from 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]
from 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.
from 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
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