Word Meanings - CURRENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. Ayliffe. 2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception;

Additional info about word: CURRENCY

currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. Ayliffe. 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. He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURRENCY)

• Cash
• Money
• specie
• coin
• currency
• capital

Related words: (words related to CURRENCY)

• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• CAPITALIZATION
  The act or process of capitalizing.
• CAPITAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the head. Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. Milton. 2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials;
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• CAPITALLY
  1. In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally. 2. In a capital manner; excellently.
• CURRENCY
  currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. Ayliffe. 2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception;
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• CAPITALIZE
  1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital. 2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.) 3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• CAPITALIST
  One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.
• CAPITALNESS
  The quality of being capital; preeminence.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• SPECIE
  abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in form. In specie , in precise or definite form; specifically; according to the exact terms; of the very thing.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• MONEYWORT
  A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
• MONEY-MAKING
  The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY
  The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
• CONCURRENCY
  Concurrence.
• UNMONEYED
  Destitute of money; not rich. Shenstone.
• MAUNDY COINS; MAUNDY MONEY
  Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.