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[ noun ] general acceptance or use

Examples

: "the currency of ideas"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American_War , the steady currency of the Lincoln myth , the increased emphasis on the frontier west in our mass_media are cases_in_point .

Related terms

prevalence

2
[ noun ] the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used

Used in print

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

Inside the crown , stuffed behind the stained sweatband , could be seen thin , crumpled wads of currency .

3
[ noun ] a current state of general acceptance and use

Synonyms

vogue

Related terms

acceptance

4
[ noun ] the property of belonging to the present time

Examples

: "the currency of a slang term"

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