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C0815400 (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

currency

(ˈkʌrənsɪ) n, pl -cies1. (Currencies) a metal or paper medium of exchange that is in current use in a particular country2. general acceptance or circulation; prevalence: the currency of ideas. 3. the period of time during which something is valid, accepted, or in force4. the act of being passed from person to person5. (Currencies) Austral (formerly) the local medium of exchange, esp in the colonies, as distinct from sterling6. (Peoples) slang a. (formerly) the native-born Australians, as distinct from the British immigrantsb. (as modifier): a currency lad. [C17: from Medieval Latin currentia, literally: a flowing, from Latin currere to run, flow]

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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	currency - the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently usedmedium of exchange, monetary system - anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or regionmoney - 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 borrowingcash, 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 speciecoinage, 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-datenessnowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spillercontemporaneity, 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"

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noun1. 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

currency

nounSomething, 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

货币

currency

(ˈkarənsi) , ((American) ˈkə:-) – plural ˈcurrencies – noun the money (notes and coins) of a country. the currencies of the world; foreign currency.货币

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currency:

see moneymoney,
term that refers to two concepts: the abstract unit of account in terms of which the value of goods, services, and obligations can be compared; and anything that is widely established as a means of payment.
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Currency

(in Russian, valiuta). (1) The monetary unit of a country and its nature (gold, silver, paper).

(2) Monetary tokens of foreign states, as well as credit instruments and payment papers (such as promissory notes and checks), made out in foreign monetary units and used in international payments. Up to the 19th century the only two systems in general use were silver and bimetallist currencies, silver and gold being used simultaneously in the second system. At the beginning of the 19th century, England, and during the second half of the century other capitalist countries as well, began to make general use of gold as a currency. The period of the general crisis of capitalism is characterized by the use of paper currency, that is, of banknotes and paper money not convertible into gold or silver. Nonconvertible banknotes and paper money are subject to inflation and consequently to depreciation, and the amount of gold actually represented by the paper currency unit changes, with the result that the rate of exchange of the currency is reduced in relation to foreign currencies.

Modern capitalism is characterized by unstable and declining currencies. Currency depreciation is accompanied by a decline in the gold content of the monetary units. During the entire postwar period there has been chronic inflation and systematic currency devaluation, including mass devaluations in 1949 and 1967. In these conditions some capitalist countries try to maintain artificially the nominal gold value of their currencies. For example, in the United States, where in 1969 the level of prices for goods, even according to official figures, was more than 2.5 times the prewar price level, the gold content of the dollar, fixed at 0.888671 of pure gold on Jan. 31, 1934, remained unchanged until 1972. In many countries the exchange rate of the currency is maintained with the help of currency restrictions. Thus, out of the 115 countries that were members of the International Monetary Fund at the end of 1969, only about one-third did not make use of foreign-exchange restrictions.

The currencies of capitalist countries can be classified as convertible, partly convertible, and nonconvertible. The currencies of countries that have completely removed all currency restrictions, both for nonresidents (alien physical or juridical persons) and residents (physical or juridical persons of the country), are convertible currencies; that is, they can be exchanged for a foreign currency. These include the United States dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Swiss franc, the mark of the Federal Republic of Germany, and others. The currencies of those countries that have not removed restrictions on all currency transactions or have removed them only in the case of nonresidents are termed partly convertible. Such are the currencies of most of the Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Austria, all of which in December 1958 removed currency restrictions on nonresidents, so that these persons were able freely to transfer their export earnings and the sums they have in bank accounts in United States dollars or other fully or partly convertible currencies.

Nonconvertible currencies are those of countries that maintain currency restrictions on all currency operations both in the case of residents and nonresidents. These are, in particular, the currencies of dependent and developing countries, which are tied in the majority of these countries to the currency of the metropolitan or former metropolitan country and the exchange rates of which are fixed at levels benefiting foreign monopolies.

In the USSR and other socialist countries, the stability of the currency is ensured mainly by the volume of goods put into circulation through state and cooperative trade at planned prices. The currencies of the socialist countries are basically strengthened by the planned, crisis-free, and progressive development of the socialist economy, the planned circulation of money, and commodity circulation. The stability of the currencies of socialist countries also rests on the state gold reserve as a guarantee of the currency; on the planning of foreign economic ties, including currency receipts and payments; and on the state foreign-exchange monopoly.

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currency

1. a metal or paper medium of exchange that is in current use in a particular country 2. Austral (formerly) the local medium of exchange, esp in the colonies, as distinct from sterling

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