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Currency vs Tugrik - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between currency and tugrik

is that currency is money or other items used to facilitate transactions while tugrik is the mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated mnt, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100.

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

    *

    tugrik

    English

    (wikipedia tugrik)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ?; formerly subdivided into 100 .

    • Usage notes

    Tugrik is the transliteration used in the standard for currency names, and is therefore widely used in business and banking. CIA World Factbook also recognizes togrog'', and Wikipedia has chosen ''tögrög as the main entry.

    Synonyms

    * togrog *