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CURRENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
General acceptance or use
Example:
the currency of ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("currency" is a kind of...):
prevalence (the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of belonging to the present time
Example:
the currency of a slang term
Synonyms:
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("currency" is a kind of...):
nowness; presentness (the quality of being the present)
Attribute:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "currency"):
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Derivation:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("currency" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "currency"):
money (the official currency issued by a government or national bank)
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)
hard currency (a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value)
folding money; paper currency; paper money (currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie)
coinage; metal money; mintage; specie (coins collectively)
