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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Irredeemable :: Irredeemable (a.) Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder..
Scrip :: Scrip (n.) Paper fractional currency.
Concurrency :: Concurrency (n.) Concurrence.
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency..
Shilling :: Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Reception; currency.
Farthing :: Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency..
Decimalism :: Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc..
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..
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..
Currency :: Currency (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Sum :: Sum (n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum..
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..
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..
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..
Bimetallic :: Bimetallic (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency..
Sicca :: Sicca (n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains..
Circulation :: Circulation (n.) Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin..
Continental :: Continental (n.) A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3..
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..
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