cur·ren·cy

(kûr′ən-sē, kŭr′-)

n. pl. cur·ren·cies

1. Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.

2. Transmission from person to person as a medium of exchange; circulation: coins now in currency.

3. General acceptance or use; prevalence: the currency of a slang term.

4. The state of being current; up-to-dateness: Can you check the currency of this address?

[From Middle English curraunt, in circulation; see current.]

CURRENCY TABLE: LISTED BY COUNTRY

Country	Basic Unit	Country	Basic Unit	Country	Basic Unit	Country	Basic Unit
Afghanistan	afghani	Dominican Republic	peso	Liechtenstein	franc	Samoa	tala
Albania	lek	East Timor	dollar	Lithuania	litas	San Marino	euro
Algeria	dinar	Ecuador	dollar	Luxembourg	euro	São Tomé and Príncipe	dobra
Andorra	euro	Egypt	pound	Macedonia	denar	Saudi Arabia	riyal
Angola	kwanza	El Salvador	colon	Madagascar	ariary	Senegal	franc
Antigua and Barbuda	dollar	Equatorial Guinea	franc	Malawi	kwacha	Serbia	dinar
Argentina	peso	Eritrea	nakfa	Malaysia	ringgit	Seychelles	rupee
Armenia	dram	Estonia	euro	Maldives	rufiyaa	Sierra Leone	leone
Australia	dollar	Ethiopia	birr	Mali	franc	Singapore	dollar
Austria	euro	Fiji	dollar	Malta	euro	Slovakia	euro
Azerbaijan	manat	Finland	euro	Marshall Islands	dollar	Slovenia	euro
Bahamas	dollar	France	euro	Mauritania	ouguiya	Solomon Islands	dollar
Bahrain	dinar	Gabon	franc	Mauritius	rupee	Somalia	shilin
Bangladesh	taka	Gambia	dalasi	Mexico	peso	South Africa	rand
Barbados	dollar	Georgia	lari	Micronesia	dollar	South Korea	won
Belarus	rubel	Germany	euro	Moldova	leu	Spain	euro
Belgium	euro	Ghana	cedi	Monaco	euro	Sri Lanka	rupee
Belize	dollar	Greece	euro	Mongolia	tögrög	Sudan	dinar
Benin	franc	Grenada	dollar	Montenegro	euro	Suriname	dollar
Bhutan	ngultrum	Guatemala	quetzal	Morocco	dirham	Swaziland	lilangeni
Bolivia	boliviano	Guinea	franc	Mozambique	metical	Sweden	krona
Bosnia and Herzegovina	marka	Guinea-Bissau	franc	Myanmar	kyat	Switzerland	franc
Botswana	pula	Guyana	dollar	Namibia	dollar	Syria	pound
Brazil	real	Haiti	gourde	Nauru	dollar	Taiwan	yuan
Brunei	dollar	Honduras	lempira	Nepal	rupee	Tajikistan	somoni
Bulgaria	lev	Hungary	forint	Netherlands	euro	Tanzania	shilling
Burkina Faso	franc	Iceland	krona	New Zealand	dollar	Thailand	baht
Burundi	franc	India	rupee	Nicaragua	cordoba	Togo	franc
Cambodia	riel	Indonesia	rupiah	Niger	franc	Tonga	pa'anga
Cameroon	franc	Iran	rial	Nigeria	naira	Trinidad and Tobago	dollar
Canada	dollar	Iraq	dinar	North Korea	won	Tunisia	dinar
Cape Verde	escudo	Ireland	euro	Norway	krone	Turkey	lira
Central African Republic	franc	Israel	sheqel	Oman	rial	Turkmenistan	manat
Chad	franc	Italy	euro	Pakistan	rupee	Tuvalu	dollar
Chile	peso	Jamaica	dollar	Palau	dollar	Uganda	shilling
China	yuan	Japan	yen	Panama	balboa	Ukraine	hryvnia
Colombia	peso	Jordan	dinar	Papua New Guinea	kina	United Arab Emirates	dirham
Comoros	franc	Kazakhstan	tenge	Paraguay	guarani	United Kingdom	pound
Congo (Dem. Rep. of)	franc	Kenya	shilling	Peru	sol	United States	dollar
Congo (Rep. of)	franc	Kiribati	dollar	Philippines	piso	Uzbekistan	som
Costa Rica	colon	Kosovo	euro	Poland	zloty	Vanuatu	vatu
Côte d'Ivoire	franc	Kuwait	dinar	Portugal	euro	Vatican City	euro
Croatia	kuna	Kyrgyzstan	som	Qatar	riyal	Venezuela	bolivar
Cuba	peso	Laos	kip	Romania	leu	Vietnam	dong
Cyprus	euro	Latvia	lats	Russia	ruble	Yemen	rial
Czech Republic	koruna	Lebanon	pound	Rwanda	franc	Zambia	kwacha
Denmark	krone	Lesotho	loti	Saint Kitts and Nevis	dollar	Zimbabwe	dollar
Djibouti	franc	Liberia	dollar	Saint Lucia	dollar
Dominica	dollar	Libya	dinar	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	dollar

CURRENCY TABLE: LISTED BY BASIC UNIT

Unit	Country	Unit	Country	Unit	Country	Unit	Country
afghani	Afghanistan		Saint Lucia		Gabon		Colombia
ariary	Madagascar		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		Guinea		Cuba
baht	Thailand		Singapore		Guinea-Bissau		Dominican Republic
balboa	Panama		Solomon Islands		Liechtenstein		Mexico
birr	Ethiopia		Suriname		Mali		Uruguay
bolivar	Venezuela		Trinidad and Tobago		Niger	piso	Philippines
boliviano	Bolivia		Tuvalu		Rwanda	pound	Egypt
cedi	Ghana		United States		Senegal		Lebanon
colon	Costa Rica		Zimbabwe		Switzerland		Syria
	El Salvador	dong	Vietnam		Togo		United Kingdom
cordoba	Nicaragua	dram	Armenia	gourde	Haiti	pula	Botswana
dalasi	Gambia	escudo	Cape Verde	guarani	Paraguay	quetzal	Guatemala
denar	Macedonia	euro	Andorra	hryvnia	Ukraine	rand	South Africa
dinar	Algeria		Austria	kina	Papua New Guinea	riyal	Qatar
	Bahrain		Belgium	kip	Laos		Saudi Arabia
	Iraq		Cyprus	koruna	Czech Republic	rubel	Belarus
	Jordan		Estonia	krona	Iceland	ruble	Russia
	Kuwait		Finland		Sweden	rufiyaa	Maldives
	Libya		France	krone	Denmark	rupee	India
	Serbia		Germany		Norway		Mauritius
	Sudan		Greece	kuna	Croatia		Nepal
	Tunisia		Ireland	kwacha	Malawi		Pakistan
dirham	Morocco		Italy		Zambia		Seychelles
	United Arab Emirates		Kosovo	kwanza	Angola		Sri Lanka
dobra	São Tomé and Príncipe		Luxembourg	kyat	Myanmar	rupiah	Indonesia
dollar	Antigua and Barbuda		Malta	lari	Georgia	sheqel	Israel
	Australia		Monaco	lats	Latvia	shilin	Somalia
	Bahamas		Montenegro	lek	Albania	shilling	Kenya
	Barbados		Netherlands	lempira	Honduras		Tanzania
	Belize		Portugal	leone	Sierra Leone		Uganda
	Brunei		San Marino	leu	Moldova	sol	Peru
	Canada		Slovakia		Romania	som	Kyrgyzstan
	Dominica		Slovenia	lev	Bulgaria		Uzbekistan
	East Timor		Spain	lilangeni	Swaziland	somoni	Tajikistan
	Ecuador		Vatican City	lira	Turkey	stotinka	Bulgaria
	Fiji	forint	Hungary	litas	Lithuania	taka	Bangladesh
	Grenada	franc	Benin	loti	Lesotho	tala	Samoa
	Guyana		Burkina Faso	manat	Azerbaijan	tenge	Kazakhstan
	Jamaica		Burundi		Turkmenistan	tögrög	Mongolia
	Kiribati		Cameroon	marka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	vatu	Vanuatu
	Liberia		Central African Republic	metical	Mozambique	won	North Korea
	Marshall Islands		Chad	naira	Nigeria		South Korea
	Micronesia		Comoros	nakfa	Eritrea	yen	Japan
	Namibia		Congo (Dem. Rep. of)	ngultrum	Bhutan	yuan	China
	Nauru		Congo (Rep. of)	ouguiya	Mauritania		Taiwan
	New Zealand		Côte d'Ivoire	pa'anga	Tonga	zloty	Poland
	Palau		Djibouti	peso	Argentina
	Saint Kitts and Nevis		Equatorial Guinea		Chile

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currency

(ˈkʌrənsɪ)

n, pl -cies

1. (Currencies) a metal or paper medium of exchange that is in current use in a particular country

2. general acceptance or circulation; prevalence: the currency of ideas.

3. the period of time during which something is valid, accepted, or in force

4. the act of being passed from person to person

5. (Currencies) Austral (formerly) the local medium of exchange, esp in the colonies, as distinct from sterling

6. (Peoples) slang

a. (formerly) the native-born Australians, as distinct from the British immigrants

b. (as modifier): a currency lad.

[C17: from Medieval Latin currentia, literally: a flowing, from Latin currere to run, flow]

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cur•ren•cy

(ˈkɜr ən si, ˈkʌr-)

n., pl. -cies.

1. any form of money that is in circulation as a medium of exchange in a country.

2. general acceptance; prevalence; vogue.

3. a time or period during which something is widely accepted and circulated.

4. the fact or quality of being widely accepted and circulated from person to person.

5. circulation, as of coin.

[1650–60; < Medieval Latin currentia. See current, -ency]

currency

The up-to-dateness of a map or chart as determined by comparison with the best available information at a given time.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	currency - the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used 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 money - the official currency issued by a government or national bank; "he changed his money into francs" 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; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" hard currency - a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value; "the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements"; "Germany once had a solid economy, good fiscal and monetary policies, and a hard currency" 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
	2.	currency - general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas" prevalence - the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
	3.	currency - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" currentness, up-to-dateness nowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, modernism - the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

currency

noun

1. money, coinage, legal tender, medium of exchange, bills, notes, coins More people favour a single European currency than oppose it.

2. acceptance, exposure, popularity, circulation, vogue, prevalence His theory has gained wide currency in America.

Currencies

Country	Currency
Afghanistan	afghani
Albania	lek
Algeria	Algerian dinar
Andorra	euro
Angola	kwanza
Antigua and Barbuda	East Caribbean dollar
Argentina	peso
Armenia	dram
Australia	Australian dollar
Austria	euro
Azerbaijan	manat
Bahamas	Bahamian dollar
Bahrain	dinar
Bangladesh	taka
Barbados	Barbados dollar
Belarus	rouble
Belgium	euro
Belize	Belize dollar
Benin	CFA franc
Bhutan	ngultrum
Bolivia	boliviano
Bosnia-Herzegovina	convertible marka
Botswana	pula
Brazil	real
Brunei	Brunei dollar
Bulgaria	lev
Burkina-Faso	CFA franc
Burundi	Burundi franc
Cambodia	riel
Cameroon	CFA franc
Canada	Canadian dollar
Cape Verde	escudo
Central African Republic	CFA franc
Chad	CFA franc
Chile	peso
China	yuan
Colombia	peso
Comoros	Comorian franc
Congo (Republic of)	CFA franc
Congo (Democratic Republic of)	Congolese franc
Costa Rica	cólon
Côte d'Ivoire	CFA franc
Croatia	kuna
Cuba	peso
Cyprus	pound
Czech Republic	koruna
Denmark	krone
Djibouti	Djibouti franc
Dominica	East Caribbean dollar
Dominican Republic	peso
East Timor	US dollar
Ecuador	US dollar
Egypt	pound
El Salvador	cólon
Equatorial Guinea	CFA franc
Eritrea	nakfa
Estonia	kroon
Ethiopia	birr
Fiji	Fiji dollar
Finland	euro
France	euro
French Guiana	French franc
Gabon	CFA franc
Gambia	dalasi
Germany	euro
Ghana	cedi
Greece	euro
Greenland	Danish krone
Grenada	East Caribbean dollar
Guatemala	quetzal
Guinea	Guinea franc
Guinea-Bissau	CFA franc
Guyana	Guyana dollar
Haiti	gourde
Honduras	lempira
Hungary	forint
Iceland	krona
India	rupee
Indonesia	rupiah
Iran	rial
Iraq	dinar
Ireland (Republic of)	euro
Israel	shekel
Italy	euro
Jamaica	Jamaican dollar
Japan	yen
Jordan	dinar
Kazakhstan	tenge
Kenya	shilling
Kirghizia	som
Kiribati	Australian dollar
Kosovo	dinar; euro
Kuwait	dinar
Kyrgyzstan	som
Laos	kip
Latvia	lat
Lebanon	pound
Lesotho	loti
Liberia	Liberian dollar
Libya	dinar
Liechtenstein	Swiss franc
Lithuania	litas
Luxembourg	euro
Macedonia	denar
Madagascar	Malagasy franc
Malawi	kwacha
Malaysia	ringgit
Maldives (Republic of)	rufiyaa
Mali	CFA franc
Malta	lira
Marshall Islands	U.S. dollar
Mauritania	ouguiya
Mauritius	rupee
Mexico	peso
Micronesia	U.S. dollar
Moldova	leu
Monaco	French franc
Mongolia	tugrik
Montenegro	euro
Montserrat	East Caribbean dollar
Morocco	dirham
Mozambique	metical
Myanmar	kyat
Namibia	Namibian dollar
Nauru	Australian dollar
Nepal	rupee
Netherlands	euro
New Zealand	New Zealand dollar
Nicaragua	córdoba
Niger	CFA franc
Nigeria	naira
North Korea	won
Norway	krone
Oman	rial
Pakistan	rupee
Palau	U.S. dollar
Panama	balboa
Papua New Guinea	kina
Paraguay	guarani
Peru	new sol
Philippines	Philippine peso
Poland	zloty
Portugal	euro
Qatar	riyal
Romania	leu
Russia	rouble
Rwanda	Rwanda franc
St. Kitts and Nevis	East Caribbean dollar
St. Lucia	East Caribbean dollar
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	East Caribbean dollar
Samoa	tala
San Marino	euro
São Tomé and Principe	dobra
Saudi Arabia	riyal
Senegal	CFA franc
Seychelles	rupee
Sierra Leone	leone
Singapore	Singapore dollar
Slovakia	koruna
Slovenia	tolar
Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands dollar
Somalia	shilling
South Africa	rand
South Korea	won
Spain	euro
Sri Lanka	rupee
Sudan	dinar
Surinam	guilder
Swaziland	lilangeni
Sweden	krona
Switzerland	Swiss franc
Syria	pound
Taiwan	Taiwan dollar
Tajikistan	somoni
Tanzania	shilling
Thailand	baht
Togo	CFA franc
Tonga	pa'anga
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago dollar
Tunisia	dinar
Turkey	Turkish lira
Turkmenistan	manat
Tuvalu	Australian dollar
Uganda	shilling
Ukraine	hryvna
United Arab Emirates	dirham
United Kingdom	pound sterling
United States of America	U.S. dollar
Uruguay	peso
Uzbekistan	sum
Vanuatu	vatu
Vatican City	euro
Venezuela	bolívar
Vietnam	dong
Yemen	riyal
Yugoslavia (Serbia)	dinar
Zambia	kwacha
Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe dollar

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currency

noun

Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:

cash, lucre, money.

Informal: wampum.

Slang: bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, mazuma, moola, scratch.

Chiefly British: brass.

Translations

عُمْلَةعِملَة مُتَداوَلَه

měnapenízevaluta

valutamønt

Währung Zahlungsmittel Bargeld

νόμισμα ενημερότητα

monovaluto

moneda divisa

valuuta

valuutta

devise monnaie

valuta

pénznemvaluta

gjaldmiîill

valuta divulgazione moneta moneta solida

通貨

통화

valiuta

naudavalūta

mena

valuta

เงินตรา

kur parapara birimi

tiền tệ

货币

currency

[ˈkʌrənsɪ]

A. N

1. (= monetary system, money) → moneda f
foreign currency → moneda f extranjera, divisas fpl
see also paper C

2. (fig) → aceptación f
his theory had wide currency in America → su teoría tuvo amplia aceptación en América
these things are the currency of everyday life → estas cosas son el pan nuestro de cada día
to gain currency [views, ideas] → darse a conocer, difundirse
it was his writing that gave the term currency → el término se dio a conocer gracias a sus escritos

B. CPD currency market N → mercado m monetario, mercado m de divisas
currency note N → pagaré m fiscal, pagaré m de tesorería
currency restrictions NPL → restricciones fpl monetarias
currency snake N → serpiente f monetaria
currency unit N → unidad f monetaria

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currency

[ˈkʌrənsi] n

(= money) → monnaie f
foreign currency → devises fpl étrangères, monnaie f étrangère
single European currency → monnaie f unique européenne hard currency

(fig) to gain currency → s'accréditercurrency trading n → échanges mpl monétaires

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currency

(Fin) → Währung f; foreign currency → Devisen pl

→ Verbreitung f; (of word, expression) → Gebräuchlichkeit f; to gain currency → sich verbreiten, um sich greifen; to give currency to a rumour/theory → ein Gerücht/eine Theorie verbreiten or in Umlauf setzen

currency

currency appreciation

n → Geldaufwertung f

currency depreciation

n → Geldabwertung f

currency market

n → Devisenmarkt m

currency scam

n (inf) → Währungsschwindel m → or -betrug m

currency snake

n → Währungsschlange f

currency speculator

n → Währungsspekulant(in) m(f)

currency trader

n → Devisenhändler(in) m(f)

currency trading

n → Devisenhandel m

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currency

[ˈkʌr/ənsɪ] n

a. → moneta
foreign currency → valuta estera
hard currency → moneta forte
paper currency → banconote fpl

b. (fig) (of ideas) to gain currency → acquistare larga diffusione, acquistare credito

currency

(ˈkarənsi) , ((American) ˈkə:-) – plural ˈcurrencies – noun

the money (notes and coins) of a country. the currencies of the world; foreign currency.

currency

→ عُمْلَة měna valuta Währung νόμισμα moneda valuutta devise valuta valuta 通貨 통화 munteenheid valuta waluta moeda corrente валюта valuta เงินตรา kur tiền tệ 货币

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The remainder of Governor Belcher's term of office was principally taken up in endeavoring to settle the currency. Honest John Hull's pine-tree shillings had long ago been worn out, or lost, or melted down again; and their place was supplied by bills of paper or parchment, which were nominally valued at threepence and upwards.

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Though the poems of the Boeotian school (2) were unanimously assigned to Hesiod down to the age of Alexandrian criticism, they were clearly neither the work of one man nor even of one period: some, doubtless, were fraudulently fathered on him in order to gain currency; but it is probable that most came to be regarded as his partly because of their general character, and partly because the names of their real authors were lost.

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The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency.

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And as counters of imitation gold can be used only among a group of people who agree to accept them as gold, or among those who do not know the nature of gold, so universal historians and historians of culture, not answering humanity's essential question, serve as currency for some purposes of their own, only in universities and among the mass of readers who have a taste for what they call "serious reading."

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He wrote his biography[3] avowedly to "remove certain misconceptions which had gained currency" in regard to the later part of his father's life, and which had "caused considerable pain to persons still living." It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family.

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Moliere has a place in literature infinitely loftier than Goldoni's; and he has supplied types, characters, phrases, to the currency of thought, and Goldoni has supplied none.

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A Dodson would not be taxed with the omission of anything that was becoming, or that belonged to that eternal fitness of things which was plainly indicated in the practice of the most substantial parishioners, and in the family traditions,--such as obedience to parents, faithfulness to kindred, industry, rigid honesty, thrift, the thorough scouring of wooden and copper utensils, the hoarding of coins likely to disappear from the currency, the production of first-rate commodities for the market, and the general preference of whatever was home-made.

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Peter Goldthwaite, on the contrary, after innumerable schemes, which ought to have collected all the coin and paper currency of the country into his coffers, was as needy a gentleman as ever wore a patch upon his elbow.

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For a mere puppy this offer was generous, because half a fathom of shell-money, strung on a thread of twisted coconut fibres, was equivalent in cash to half a sovereign in English currency, to two dollars and a half in American, or, in live-pig currency, to half of a fair-sized fat pig.

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The one can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation; the other is in several respects the arbiter of commerce, and in this capacity can establish markets and fairs, can regulate weights and measures, can lay embargoes for a limited time, can coin money, can authorize or prohibit the circulation of foreign coin.

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But the woman had fled through a door, and on the paper was written:--"This is to certify that I, The Worm, have paid in full my debts to the Senior Subaltern, and, further, that the Senior Subaltern is my debtor, by agreement on the 23d of February, as by the Mess attested, to the extent of one month's Captain's pay, in the lawful currency of the India Empire."

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The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger.

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