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 actual time that gold and silver were first used as currency is debatable"; "The British currency is the pound sterling"; "The Euro was launched as an electronic currency in 1999"
    
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