Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.
- n. Transmission from person to person as a medium of exchange; circulation: coins now in currency.
- n. General acceptance or use; prevalence: the currency of a slang term.
- n. The state of being current; up-to-dateness: Can you check the currency of this address?
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flowing, running, or passing; a continued or uninterrupted course, like that of a stream.
- n. A continued course in public knowledge, opinion, or belief; the state or fact of being communicated in speech or writing from person to person, or from age to age: as, a startling rumor gained currency.
- n. A continual passing from hand to hand; circulation: as, the currency of coins or of banknotes.
- n. Fluency; readiness of utterance.
- n. General estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
- n. That which is current as a medium of exchange; that which is in general use as money or as a representative of value: as, the currency of a country.
Wiktionary
- n. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- n. more specifically Paper money.
- n. The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
- n. obsolete fluency; readiness of utterance
- n. obsolete Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream.
- n. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation.
- n. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value.
- n. obsolete Fluency; readiness of utterance.
- n. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
- n. the property of belonging to the present time
- n. general acceptance or use
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currens, from currō. (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English curraunt, in circulation; see current. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As soon as facebook developers’ allotted banner ad space dries up, or the virtual currency/survey model dries up, the only thing left to monetize in the realm will be virtual gifts (* not virtual currency*), and being that Facebook already has a gift shop, they’ll be slopping up all the revenue.”
“Mr. Mantega, who popularized the term "currency war" a year ago to describe the political impact on emerging market countries to keep the value of their exports competitive amid a declining U.S. dollar, said he doesn't believe the wars are over.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brazil Says Europe Must 'Save Itself'
“Although the term "currency board" is somewhat contemporary, the Bank of England used this mechanism to manage its gold standard system in the 18th century.”
“The phrase "currency board linked to gold" drives some hard-money advocates batty.”
“Oddly, the vision I have of the newly divorced woman flinging herself onto a bed covered in currency is not born out by the figures.”
“Brazil's sharp-tongued Finance Minister Guido Mantega quickly became an international sensation when he coined the phrase "currency wars" to refer to excessive currency manipulation in these times of high volatility and dollar debasement.”
“Mantega coined the phrase "currency wars" - AFP/Getty Images via @daylife”
“Though Kerouac and Ginsberg each sought to elevate the term "Beat Generation" into something "beatific," John Clellon Holmes, who gave the term currency in a 1952 article, paraphrased Kerouac saying, "It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul," a feeling of being beaten down to the bedrock of consciousness.”
“The tensions in currency markets, which some have called a currency war, are expected top the agenda when finance ministers from Group of 20 nations gather in South Korea later this month.”
The Wall Street Journal: Singapore Surprises With a Move to Tighten
“Finance officials from the group's member economies also agreed at a meeting here to take a closer look at what they called currency misalignments, a move clearly aimed at frequent complaints about an undervalued Chinese yuan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘currency’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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money
words for currency
money, cheddar, beans, cheese, cash, gwap, cream, brass, cake, bread, scratch, sugar and 41 more...
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Economists do it with models
arbitrage, behaviour, capital, dromography, embargo, fiscal, globalisation, hyperinflation, incentive, j-curve, keynesian, labour and 143 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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paying your way
coins, paper, cards and more
penny, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, nickel, coin, shekel, wampum, simolian, fen and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for currency.
chained_bear Inefficient Units of Currency. Sep 3, 2008