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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Currency \Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), n.; pl. {Currencies} (-s?z).
     [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of
     currere to run. See {Current}.]
     1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a
        stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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     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.
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     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.
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     4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
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     5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which
        anything is generally valued.
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              He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to
              their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic
              value.                                --Bacon.
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              The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a
              transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
                                                    --W. Irving.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  currency
       n 1: the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
       2: general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
       3: a current state of general acceptance and use [syn: {vogue}]
       4: the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency
          of a slang term" [syn: {currentness}, {up-to-dateness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "currency":
     PR, and pence, averageness, ballyhoo, blurb, bon ton, bright light,
     cash, celebrity, circulating medium, coin, coinage, coined liberty,
     cold cash, common knowledge, commonality, commonness,
     commonplaceness, cry, daylight, dollars, dough, eclat,
     emergency money, exposure, extensiveness, fame, famousness,
     fashionableness, filthy lucre, fractional currency, generality,
     glare, gold, habitualness, hard cash, hard currency, hoopla,
     hue and cry, legal tender, lettuce, limelight, lucre, mammon,
     managed currency, maximum dissemination, medium of exchange,
     mintage, modishness, money, necessity money, needful, normality,
     notoriety, ordinariness, pelf, plug, popularity, postage currency,
     postal currency, pounds, press notice, prevalence, public eye,
     public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity,
     publicity story, publicness, puff, rampantness, reclame, reign,
     report, rifeness, routineness, run, scrip, shillings, silver,
     soft currency, specie, spotlight, standardness, sterling,
     stylishness, sweepingness, the almighty dollar, the wherewith,
     the wherewithal, usualness, voguishness, widespreadness,
     write-up
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CURRENCY. The money which passes, at a fixed value, from hand to hand; money 
  which is authorized by law. 
       2. By art. 1, s. 8, the Constitution of the United States authorizes 
  congress "to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof." Changes in the 
  currency ought not to be made but for the most urgent reason, as they 
  unsettle commerce, both at home and abroad. Suppose Peter contracts to pay 
  Paul one thousand dollars in six months-the dollar of a certain fineness 
  of silver, weighing one hundred and twelve and a half grains-and 
  afterwards, before the money becomes due, the value of the dollar is 
  changed, and it weighs now but fifty-six and a quarter grains; will one 
  thousand of the new dollars pay the old debt? Different opinion may be 
  entertained, but it seems that such payment would be complete; because, 1. 
  The creditor is bound to receive the public currency; and, 2. He is bound to 
  receive it at its legal value. 6 Duverg. n. 174. 
  
  

















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