Currency vs Currencies - What's the difference?
currency | currencies |
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Paper money.
* 1943 , (William Saroyan), , chapter 3,
The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
(obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance
(obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
As nouns the difference between currency and currencies
is that currency is money or other items used to facilitate transactions while currencies is .currency
English
(wikipedia currency)Noun
- Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
- Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
- The jargon’s currency .
- He takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency , and not after intrinsic value. — Francis Bacon.
- The bare name of Englishman too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. — W. Irving.
