| 单词 | currency |
| 释义 | currency (once / 272 pages) 1n 2n 3n Currency is the paper and coin money that a country uses to conduct business. The United States uses a currency that's made up of dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies. Just about every country has its own currency — the money its people use to pay for their groceries, clothes, and other goods. Paper currency in the United States is all green and can confuse people who use bills with different colors for different denominations. In addition to describing a country's monetary system, currency means something that is accepted or used. The slang word "daddy-o" was the currency in the 1950s, but people who say it today can expect to receive strange looks. WORD FAMILYcurrency: currencies+/countercurrent: countercurrents/current: countercurrent, currency, currently, currentness, currents, noncurrent, undercurrent/undercurrent: undercurrents USAGE EXAMPLESCURRENCIES: The dollar started the new year with broad gains in currency markets. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) And there was talk about money — India’s recent devaluing of its currency in an apparent effort to cut graft and tax evasion. Time(Jan 01, 2017) The deadline for exchanging or depositing the old currency in bank accounts passed Friday. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 n the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used 2Hypo|Hyper money the official currency issued by a government or national bank Eurocurrencycurrency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing cash, hard cash, hard currencymoney in the form of bills or coins hard currencya currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value folding money, paper currency, paper moneycurrency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie coinage, metal money, mintage, speciecoins collectively sterlingBritish money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK fractional currencypaper currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit changemoney received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency changethe balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due chickenfeed, chump change, small changea trifling sum of money coina flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money fiat moneymoney that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie Federal Reserve note, bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, government note, greenback, notea piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) pin money, pocket money, spending moneycash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses cold cash, ready cash, ready moneymoney in the form of cash that is readily available Eurodollara United States dollar deposited in a European bank and used as an international currency to finance trade 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 n the property of belonging to the present time 3the currency of a slang term Syn|Hypo|Hyper currentness, up-to-dateness contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness the quality of being current or of the present nowness, presentness the quality of being the present n general acceptance or use the currency of ideas Hyper prevalence the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread |
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