currency
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/, /ˈkɝ.ən.si/
(accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)Audio (US) (file)
Noun
currency (countable and uncountable, plural currencies)
- Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
- (more specifically) Paper money.
- 1943, William Saroyan, chapter 3, in The Human Comedy:
- Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
- The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
- The jargon’s currency.
- 1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
- Fear of punishment has no currency with me as long as I remain convinced of the larger value of what I have done.
- (obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
- He […] takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.
- 1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “English Writers on America”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 112:
- The bare name of Englishman […] too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
- (obsolete) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
Derived terms
Compound words and phrases with this term at the beginning
Compound words and phrases with this term at the end
- closed currency
- commodity currency
- common currency
- cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, crypto currency
- digital currency
- e-currency
- fiat currency
- foreign currency
- green currency
- hard currency
- in-game currency
- key currency
- metacurrency
- reserve currency
- settlement currency
- single currency
- time-based currency
- toy currency
- virtual currency
Translations
money or other item used to facilitate transactions
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paper money
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state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
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(obsolete in English) fluency — see fluency
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See also
- Category:Currency symbols
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