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.