currency
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
currency
- Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
- (more specifically) Paper money.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy (novel), chapter 3,
- Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy (novel), chapter 3,
- The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
- The jargon’s currency.
- (obsolete) 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.
- (obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance
- French: monnaie, devise, numéraire
- German: Währung
- Italian: valuta
- Portuguese: moeda
- Russian: валю́та
- Spanish: moneda
- French: billet de banque (literally)
- French: courant
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