English Explanatory Dictionary

currency

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
  2. Paper money.
  3. The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
  4. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
  5. Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Pronunciation

/ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/ /ˈkɝ.ən.si/ en-us-currency.ogg

Word forms

currency currencies

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō. By surface analysis, current + -cy.

Related words

course current

Derived words

currency adjustment factor currency band currency basket currency cocktail currency code currency control currency crisis currency detector currency exchange currency intervention currency lad currency lass currency overlay currency risk currency sign currency strap currency symbol currency war closed currency commodity currency common currency cryptocurrency crypto-currency crypto currency cybercurrency digital currency e-currency eurocurrency fiat currency foreign currency green currency hard currency in-game currency key currency metacurrency microcurrency multicurrency mutilated currency noncurrency paper currency petrocurrency reserve currency settlement currency single currency time-based currency toy currency virtual currency wildcat currency xenocurrency
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