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currency (iou)



currency noun & adjective. M17.
[from CURRENT adjective: see -ENCY.]
A. noun.
The fact or condition of flowing; a current, a stream. rare. M17.
The fact or quality of being in circulation as a medium of exchange. L17.
The money or other commodity which is in circulation as a medium of exchange. E18.
hard currency: see HARD adjective. managed currency: see MANAGED 2. postal currency: see POSTAL adjective. reserve currency: see RESERVE noun & adjective. soft currency: see SOFT adjective.
G. Boycott Having surrendered all our local currency..we had no money to buy food or a drink.
b. spec. A medium of exchange which differs in value from that used for official reckoning, e.g. local money formerly used in British colonies (usu. contrasted with sterling); fig. (Austral.) a native-born Australian. arch. M18.
The course of time; the time during which something runs its course. E18.
J. R. McCulloch During the entire currency of the lease.
The fact or quality of being generally accepted; prevalence (of an idea, report, etc.). E18.
G. F. Kennan The..prejudiced views about Russian Communism that were beginning to find currency in Western officialdom. N. Podhoretz When I was in college, the term WASP had not yet come into currency.
Comb.: currency note a note issued as a medium of exchange, esp. one of the 1 and 10s. notes first issued by the Treasury during the 1914-18 war.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Native-born Australian. arch. E19.
Landfall She spoke the King's English like a currency lass.