currency
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈkɜrənsi/
:
vigencia
- Within her community of musical practice, Rie held the social currency of ability.
- gain currency
- give currency
- idea is gaining currency
And in this business that we're in, the currency of the realm is outcomes.
- And in this business that we're in, the currency of the realm is outcomes.
- So belief doesn't have much currency in the sciences.
- Trust, trust is the most important currency in business.
- Let's let's stop making expertise the currency of success.
- I think it's one of the most significant currencies on earth.
- Also, is this what the currency is now?
- And so it, it was showing the difference between currency and money.
Examples
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I get paid in the currency of knowledge.
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In the world of the street-oriented, respect becomes a form of currency, an intangible form of social wealth.
Academic text (2013) -
In real life, what is the political currency to not close the border?
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Trust, trust is the most important currency in business.
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Its message suddenly achieved new currency in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.
Academic text (2011) -
In our community, money isn't the only form of currency.
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The theme of compassion, of course, has vast contemporary currency in diverse discussions of ethical, religious, and political theory.
Academic text (2008) -
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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To me, paradoxically, the literature of the so-called "dead tongues" holds more currency than this morning's newspaper.
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The idea gained currency after it was featured in several major publications.
Synonyms
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3.9
A thing many people in a group accept or value
Antonyms
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7.7
Becoming old and no longer useful because of new technology or changes in society
Compounds
- Formal
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8.8
The main person who leads the agency that watches over national banks
- Archaic
Paper money that is worth less than one unit of a country's money and is used like coins
How Common
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Currency comes from the Latin currere 'to run' and shares the root with the English word current. So an idea has 'currency' when it 'runs' widely among people and is in 'circulation', meaning it is used and accepted.