Definition of currency

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Currency (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..

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Decimalism :: Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..
Inconvertibility :: Inconvertibility (n.) The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold..
Sychnocarpous :: Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy..
Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note..
Byword :: Byword (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money..
Currentness :: Currentness (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Effective :: Effective (n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe..
Go :: Go (v. i.) To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded..
Scrip :: Scrip (n.) Paper fractional currency.
Currency :: Currency (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..
Monometallism :: Monometallism (n.) The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism..
Currency :: Currency (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time..
Recurrency :: Recurrency (n.) The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse..
Assignat :: Assignat (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state..
Prevail :: Prevail (v. i.) To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day..
Bullionist :: Bullionist (n.) An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold..
Continental :: Continental (n.) A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3..
Money :: Money (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling..
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