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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Currency \Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), noun; pl. {Currencies} (-s?z). [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See {Current}.]
1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. --Bacon.
The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. --W. Irving.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
currency
noun
1: the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
2: general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
3: a current state of general acceptance and use [syn: {vogue}]
4: the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" [syn: {currentness}, {up-to-dateness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "currency": PR, and pence, averageness, ballyhoo, blurb, bon ton, bright light, cash, celebrity, circulating medium, coin, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, common knowledge, commonality, commonness, commonplaceness, cry, daylight, dollars, dough, eclat, emergency money, exposure, extensiveness, fame, famousness, fashionableness, filthy lucre, fractional currency, generality, glare, gold, habitualness, hard cash, hard currency, hoopla, hue and cry, legal tender, lettuce, limelight, lucre, mammon, managed currency, maximum dissemination, medium of exchange, mintage, modishness, money, necessity money, needful, normality, notoriety, ordinariness, pelf, plug, popularity, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, press notice, prevalence, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, rampantness, reclame, reign, report, rifeness, routineness, run, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, spotlight, standardness, sterling, stylishness, sweepingness, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, usualness, voguishness, widespreadness, write-up
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