The percentage of charge made for the exchange of paper money into cash. (Italian).
“The profit is called by the Italians aggio.”—Searlett.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.