Definition of currency
- n. - A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of
a stream; as, the currency of time.
- n. - The state or quality of being current; general acceptance
or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand;
circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the
currency of bank notes.
- n. - That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as
having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie
currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute
for metallic money.
- n. - Fluency; readiness of utterance.
- n. - Current value; general estimation; the rate at which
anything is generally valued.