currency

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 15.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

   Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.

2. noun Paper money.
3. noun The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.

   The jargon’s currency.

4. noun Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
5. noun Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Similar words

up-to-dateness currentness vogue cash money forex monetary bank mint banknote

Often followed by

and of in is to was for exchange or

Word family

currencies