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Money vs Agio - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between money and agio

is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while agio is 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.

money

English

(money)

Noun

(wikipedia money)
  • A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
  • A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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  • A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  • Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  • The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  • Wealth.
  • An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  • A person who funds an operation.
  • (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.

    • Synonyms

    * beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See also

    Derived terms

    * bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for money

    Related terms

    * mint * monetary * moneyed

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    External links

    * * * 1000 English basic words

    agio

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1989 , Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch'' (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, ''Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert ), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, ISBN 0910818126, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),
    • Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.
  • * 1776 , Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations , [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=220&Itemid=28].
    • The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio , which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.

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