CURRENCY

Currency

A currency in the most specific use of the word refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation, as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money. This use is synonymous with banknotes, or with banknotes plus coins, meaning the physical tokens used for money by a government.

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currency

Noun

  1. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
    Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
  2. Paper money.
  3. The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
    The jargon’s currency.
  4. fluency; readiness of utterance
  5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
    He takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. — Francis Bacon.
    The bare name of Englishman too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. — W. Irving.


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