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    CURRENCY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    General acceptance or useplay

    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 timeplay

    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 usedplay

    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)

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