Thesaurus: currency

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1. n. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
2. n. 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. n. 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. n. Fluency; readiness of utterance.
5. n. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
6. n. the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
7. n. general acceptance or use
8. n. the property of belonging to the present time
9. 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; 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.
10. n:100 n. the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used n. general acceptance or use