currencies
- 1Plural of currency.
Travelers often carry two or three currencies on long trips abroad.
The bank quoted rates for the major Asian currencies before noon.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y follows a consonant, so it becomes -ies, just as agency becomes agencies. The plural does its most natural work with the money meanings, where each currency is a separate monetary system: the major currencies, foreign currencies, two or three currencies in a traveler's wallet. The sense of general acceptance can be counted as well, though phrases like an idea gaining currency keep it singular.
currencies is a form of currency
currency, noun: Money or other items used to make buying and selling possible. Full entry
- Forms
- currencycurrencies plural
- Spelling
- currency → currencies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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