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Currency vs Leut - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between currency and leut

is that currency is money or other items used to facilitate transactions while leut is lute (stringed instrument).

currency

English

(wikipedia currency)

Noun

  • Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
    • Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
  • Paper money.
  • * 1943 , (William Saroyan), , chapter 3,
    • Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
  • The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
    • The jargon’s currency .
  • (obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance
  • (obsolete) 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. — Francis Bacon.
    The bare name of Englishman too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. — W. Irving.

    Derived terms

    * (economics) fiat currency, closed currency, metacurrency

    See also

    *

    leut

    Not English

    Leut has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'leut':

    let, lit, leet, loot, lot, lout, lait, leat, lat