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Currency Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Currency? [n] general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas" [n] the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [n] the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used [n] a current state of general acceptance and use Synonyms \| Synonyms for Currency: currentness \| up-to-dateness \| vogue Related Terms \| Find terms related to Currency: and pence \| averageness \| ballyhoo \| blurb \| bon ton \| bright light \| cash \| celebrity \| circulating medium \| coin \| coinage \| coined liberty \| cold cash \| common knowledge \| commonality \| commonness \| commonplaceness \| cry \| daylight \| dollars \| dough \| eclat \| emergency money \| exposure \| extensiveness \| fame \| famousness \| fashionableness \| filthy lucre \| fractional currency \| generality \| glare \| gold \| habitualness \| hard cash \| hard currency \| hoopla \| hue and cry \| legal tender \| lettuce \| limelight \| lucre \| mammon \| managed currency \| maximum dissemination \| medium of exchange \| mintage \| modishness \| money \| necessity money \| needful \| normality \| notoriety \| ordinariness \| pelf \| plug \| popularity \| postage currency \| postal currency \| pounds \| PR \| press notice \| prevalence \| public eye \| public knowledge \| public relations \| public report \| publicity \| publicity story \| publicness \| puff \| rampantness \| reclame \| reign \| report \| rifeness \| routineness \| run \| scrip \| shillings \| silver \| soft currency \| specie \| spotlight \| standardness \| sterling \| stylishness \| sweepingness \| the almighty dollar \| the wherewith \| the wherewithal \| usualness \| voguishness \| widespreadness \| write-up See Also \| acceptance \| cash \| coinage \| contemporaneity \| contemporaneousness \| folding money \| hard cash \| hard currency \| medium of exchange \| metal money \| mintage \| modernism \| modernity \| modernness \| monetary system \| money \| nowness \| paper currency \| paper money \| presentness \| prevalence \| specie Currency In Webster's Dictionary \Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), n.; pl. {Currencies} (-s?z). [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. 2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes. 3. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money. 4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.] 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. --Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. --W. Irving.

Currency Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Currency?

[n] general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
[n] the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"
[n] the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
[n] a current state of general acceptance and use

Synonyms | Synonyms for Currency: currentness | up-to-dateness | vogue

Currency In Webster's Dictionary

\Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), n.; pl. {Currencies} (-s?z).
[Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of
currere to run. See {Current}.]
1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a
   stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.

2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance
   or reception; a passing from person to person, or from
   hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or
   general currency; the currency of bank notes.

3. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as
   having or representing value; as, the currency of a
   country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes
   circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]

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.                                --Bacon.

         The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a
         transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
                                               --W. Irving.

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