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to maneuever products into bestsellers

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Webster\'s 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \\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.
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/agiotage

agio·tage [ бjjətij ]
noun U.K.
1. currency exchanging: the business of exchanging currencies between countries
2. stock and foreign currency speculation: speculation in stocks, securities, or foreign currencies
[Late 18th century. From French, ultimately from Italian agio (see agio).]

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