currency

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A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

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.

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.

Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

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the currency of ideas Source: Internet

the currency of a slang term Source: Internet

2014 and 2015 developments The country experienced a slowdown in economic growth from 2014 sparked by falling oil prices and the effects of the Ukrainian crisis The country devalued its currency by 19% in February 2014. Source: Internet

A 1978 history of the accident written internally by NASA said at the time, "the spark that led to the fire still has wide currency at Kennedy Space Center. Source: Internet

According to him, the country’s businesspeople currently are not importing so that has taken pressure from the cedi hence the reason why the currency is doing well on the world market. Source: Internet

Acheampong's National Redemption Council (NRC) claimed that it had to act to remove the ill effects of the currency devaluation of the previous government and thereby, at least in the short run, to improve living conditions for individual Ghanaians. Source: Internet

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