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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMedieval Latincurrentia, fromLatincurrēns, fromcurrō. Bysurface analysis,current +‎-cy.

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Noun

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currency (countable anduncountable,pluralcurrencies)

  2. Money or other items used to facilitatetransactions.
    Wampum was used as acurrency byAmerindians.
    • 1986 May 25, William G. McBride, “INVESTING; CHASING RETURNS IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:
      Money managers who play downcurrencies tend to argue that outguessing foreign exchange markets in the short term is perilous, and that, over the long haul, shifts incurrency values tend to offset one another.
  3. (more specifically)Papermoney.
    • 1943,William Saroyan, chapter 3, inThe Human Comedy:
      Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece ofcurrency and a hard-boiled egg.
    • 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, inCNN‎[2]:
      Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its owncurrency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
  4. The state of beingcurrent; general acceptance, recognition or use.
    Thejargon’scurrency.
    • 1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, inGay Community News, page 5:
      Fear of punishment has nocurrency with me as long as I remain convinced of the larger value of what I have done.
  5. (obsolete) Current value; general estimation; therate at which anything is generally valued.
    • a.1627 (date written),Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, inWilliam Rawley, editor,Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland forHumphrey Robinson, […], published1629,→OCLC:
      He[…] takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk andcurrency, and not after intrinsic value.
    • 1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;Washington Irving], “English Writers on America”, inThe Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […],→OCLC,page112:
      The bare name of Englishman[…] too often gave a transientcurrency to the worthless and ungrateful.
  6. (obsolete)Fluency; readiness of utterance.

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Translations

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money or other item used to facilitate transactions
paper money
state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
(obsolete in English) current value; general estimation
(obsolete in English) fluency—seefluency
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