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English noun: currency | |||
| 1. | currency (possession) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | medium of exchange, monetary system | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cash, coinage, Eurocurrency, folding money, hard cash, hard currency, hard currency, metal money, mintage, money, paper currency, paper money, specie | ||
| 2. | currency (attribute) general acceptance or use | ||
| Samples | The currency of ideas. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | prevalence | ||
| 3. | currency (attribute) the property of belonging to the present time | ||
| Samples | The currency of a slang term. | ||
| Synonyms | currentness, up-to-dateness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | nowness, presentness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness | ||
| Attribute | current, noncurrent | ||
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