currency
[kur-uh n-see, kuhr-]
- something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
- general acceptance; prevalence; vogue.
- a time or period during which something is widely accepted and circulated.
- the fact or quality of being widely accepted and circulated from person to person.
- circulation, as of coin.
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Origin of currency
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Contemporary Examples
At currency auctions, it traded at around 64.45 rubles to the dollar and 78.8 to the euro.
Currency problems are procyclical, which is to say that they create their own momentum.
They say the currency devalues a few points just in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette.
They form a daily currency by which we settle relationships, but they also create doubt.
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November 3, 2014
In the wildly popular HBO show Game of Thrones, blood, like sex, is currency.
Historical Examples
Connected with this subject is the character of the currency.
With acute precipitancy he was separated from the currency that had come to him.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
The nation was deeply in debt, and its currency was a paper one.
The Nation in a NutshellGeorge Makepeace Towle
It is its general recognition that gives a truth a proverb's currency.
The Railroad QuestionWilliam Larrabee
His money he never got back, but gold is not the currency of the other world.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891Hall Caine
currency
- a metal or paper medium of exchange that is in current use in a particular country
- general acceptance or circulation; prevalencethe currency of ideas
- the period of time during which something is valid, accepted, or in force
- the act of being passed from person to person
- Australian (formerly) the local medium of exchange, esp in the colonies, as distinct from sterling
- Australian slang
- (formerly) the native-born Australians, as distinct from the British immigrants
- (as modifier)a currency lad
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Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin currentia, literally: a flowing, from Latin currere to run, flow
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Word Origin and History for currency
n.
1650s, "condition of flowing," from Latin currens, present participle of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)); the sense of a flow or course extended 1699 (by John Locke) to "circulation of money."
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
currency
Any form of money in actual use as a medium of exchange.
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