About The Word Currency
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Currency
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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.
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