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1. The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
    
2. General acceptance or use
   "the currency of ideas"
    
3. The property of belonging to the present time
   "the currency of a slang term";
   - currentness, up-to-dateness

Derived forms: currencies

See also: current, noncurrent

Type of: medium of exchange, monetary system, nowness, presentness, prevalence

Encyclopedia: Currency