'Currency' definitions:
Definition of 'currency'
(from WordNet)
noun
The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
noun
General acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
noun
The property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [syn: currentness, currency, up-to- dateness]
Definition of 'Currency'
From: GCIDE
- Currency \Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), n.; pl. Currencies (-s?z). [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See Current.]
- 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued. [1913 Webster]
- He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'currency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- and pence,
- averageness,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bon ton,
- bright light,
- cash,
- celebrity,
- circulating medium,
- coin,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- cold cash,
- common knowledge,
- commonality,
- commonness,
- commonplaceness,
- cry,
- daylight,
- dollars,
- dough,
- eclat,
- emergency money,
- exposure,
- extensiveness,
- fame,
- famousness,
- fashionableness,
- filthy lucre,
- fractional currency,
- generality,
- glare,
- gold,
- habitualness,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- legal tender,
- lettuce,
- limelight,
- lucre,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- maximum dissemination,
- medium of exchange,
- mintage,
- modishness,
- money,
- necessity money,
- needful,
- normality,
- notoriety,
- ordinariness,
- pelf,
- plug,
- popularity,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- PR,
- press notice,
- prevalence,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- rampantness,
- reclame,
- reign,
- report,
- rifeness,
- routineness,
- run,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- spotlight,
- standardness,
- sterling,
- stylishness,
- sweepingness,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal,
- usualness,
- voguishness,
- widespreadness,
- write-up