| NOUN | possession | currency | the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | currency | general acceptance or use | |
| attribute | currency, currentness, up-to-dateness | the property of belonging to the present time |
| Sounds | ker'ahnsiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used. | |
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| Narrower | Eurocurrency | currency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing |
| cash, hard cash, hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins | |
| coinage, mintage, specie, metal money | coins collectively | |
| hard currency | A currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value | |
| money | The official currency issued by a government or national bank | |
| paper money, folding money, paper currency | currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie | |
| Broader | medium of exchange, monetary system | Anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region |
| Spanish | divisa, moneda | |
| Catalan | divisa, moneda | |
| Meaning | general acceptance or use. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the currency of ideas" | |
| Broader | prevalence | The quality of prevailing generally |
| Meaning | The property of belonging to the present time. | |
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| Example | "the currency of a slang term" | |
| Synonyms | currentness, up-to-dateness | |
| Attributes | current | occurring in or belonging to the present time |
| noncurrent | not current or belonging to the present time | |
| Narrower | modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness | The quality of being current or of the present |
| Broader | presentness, nowness | The quality of being the present |
| Spanish | actualidad, contemporaneidad, simultaneidad | |
| Adjectives | current | occurring in or belonging to the present time |
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