# currency

Pronunciation: say "KUR-uhn-see" /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/

## Noun

1. Money or other items used to make buying and selling possible.
   - Simple: Money, like coins and bills, that people use to buy and sell things.
   - _Each nation issues its own currency to support domestic trade._
   - _Some communities created local currencies to keep money circulating nearby._
2. Money in the form of printed banknotes rather than coins.
   - Simple: Money in the form of paper notes, not coins.
   - _The bank shipped crates of fresh currency to branches across the region._
   - _Old currency was withdrawn from circulation and replaced with newly printed notes._
3. The condition of being generally accepted, recognized, or in use.
   - Simple: The state of being widely accepted or used.
   - _His ideas about reform gained wide currency during the 1990s._
   - _The old slang lost currency once the trend faded._

## Noun

4. The value at which something is generally estimated; the rate at which anything is commonly valued. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: How much something is worth in people's general opinion.
5. Fluency in speaking; readiness and ease of utterance. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The ability to speak smoothly and without pausing.

## Origin

Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō; by surface analysis, it is 'current' plus the suffix '-cy'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/currency (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).