currency

1. The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used (synset 113407086)
   is a type of: medium of exchange, monetary system - anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region
   subtypes:

   • money - the official currency issued by a government or national bank
   • eurocurrency - currency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing
   • cash, hard cash, hard currency - money in the form of bills or coins
   • hard currency - a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value
   • folding money, paper currency, paper money - currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie
   • coinage, metal money, mintage, specie - coins collectively
2. General acceptance or use (synset 104772841)
   "the currency of ideas"
   is a type of: prevalence - the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
3. The property of belonging to the present time (synset 105057530)
   "the currency of a slang term"
   tells us about:

   • current - occurring in or belonging to the present time
   • noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time
   is a type of: nowness, presentness - the quality of being the present
   subtypes: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness - the quality of being current or of the present
   same as: currentness, up-to-dateness

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