currency

noun

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

(more specifically) Paper money.

The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.

(obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

(obsolete) Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Roots

currocurr- · Latin · run

Synonyms for currency

coinagen specien mintagen

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Where does currency come from?

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