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cur·rency (kʉr′ən sē)
noun pl. currencies -·cies
- a continual passing from hand to hand, as of a medium of exchange; circulation
- ☆ the money in circulation in any country; often, specif., paper money
- common acceptance; general use; prevalence the currency of a pronunciation
- Rare the time during which anything is current
Etymology: ML currentia, a current < L currens: see current
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Converse of object
- devalue: The losers are the lenders, who are repaid in devalued currency.
Adjective modifier
- foreign: The export of foreign currency is limited to the amount declared on arrival.
Modifies a noun
- converter: The website provides a free currency converter which will give you the current exchange rate from GBP to your own currency.
Noun used with modifier
- euro: Support for the euro currency will be available in the FCS release of version 1.2.
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Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning theexisting basisofsociety thanto debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces ofeconomic lawontheside ofdestruction, and doesit in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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