currencynoun
uk/ˈkʌr.ən.si/us/ˈkɝː.ən.si/currency noun (MONEY)
B1 [ C or U ] the money that is used in a particular country at a particular time:
foreign currency
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- Take some foreign currency to cover incidentals like the taxi fare to your hotel.
- Five people were indicted for making and selling counterfeit currency.
- The Central Bank intervened in the currency markets today to try to stabilize the exchange rate.
- The currency has lost so much of its value that barter has become the preferred way of doing business.
- In 1971, Britain switched over to a decimal currency.
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Currencies
- ariary
- bitcoin
- coinage
- colon
- convertible
- cryptocurrency
- decimal currency
- denominate
- dirham
- drachma
- faller
- franc
- guilder
- krona
- krone
- lira
- peseta
- rial
- riyal
- zloty
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currency noun (ACCEPTANCE)
[ U ] the state of being commonly known or accepted, or of being used in many places:
His ideas enjoyed wide currency during the last century.
Many informal expressions are gaining currency in serious newspapers.
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Accepting & agreeing
- accept
- accredited
- assent
- be ruled by sb idiom
- buy-in
- conclude
- countenance
- court
- embrace
- gauntlet
- leap
- listen to reason idiom
- middle ground
- mustn't grumble idiom
- pounce
- reach
- signatory
- swallow
- take sb up on sth
- unquestioning
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