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Meaning of 'currency' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Currency [ n.]
- A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fluency; readiness of utterance.
- Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Meaning of 'currency' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . currency [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the property of belonging to the present time
Example in sentence:
  • the currency of a slang term
Meaning (2):
- general acceptance or use
Example in sentence:
  • the currency of ideas

Nearby Words:

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