Definition of currency

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Currency (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..

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Bimetallic :: Bimetallic (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency..
Token :: Token (n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Reception; currency.
Decimalize :: Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency..
Recurrency :: Recurrency (n.) The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse..
Bullionist :: Bullionist (n.) An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold..
Inflation :: Inflation (n.) Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of 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..
Decimalism :: Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc..
Circulation :: Circulation (n.) Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin..
Sum :: Sum (n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum..
Pfennig :: Pfennig (n.) A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency..
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..
Currency :: Currency (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..
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..
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..
Farthing :: Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency..
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money..
Effective :: Effective (n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe..
Currency :: Currency (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
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