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Definition of Currency

Currency

  1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Fluency; readiness of utterance.
  5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Currency Quotations

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson
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Currency Translations

currency in Dutch is valuta, muntsoort
currency in Norwegian is valuta
currency in Portuguese is moeda corrente
currency in Spanish is valuta, divisa
currency in Swedish is valuta

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