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1. A system of money or other items used as a medium of exchange, esp. the money used in a particular country, area, or domain of usage
   "The Euro was launched as an electronic currency in 1999"; "The actual time that gold and silver were first used as currency is debatable"; "The British currency is the pound sterling"
    
2. General acceptance or use
   "the currency of ideas"
    
3. The property of belonging to the present time
   "the currency of a slang term";
   - currentness, up-to-dateness

Derived forms: currencies

See also: current, noncurrent

Type of: medium of exchange, monetary system, nowness, presentness, prevalence

Encyclopedia: Currency