currency

Circulating legal tender

Currency is money in circulation within an economy—coins, bills, or digital equivalents: foreign currency, The local currency is the peso.

More broadly, currency means general acceptance or prevalence: The idea gained currency among economists.

Something that has currency is in common use or widely acknowledged as valid: outdated theories that no longer have currency.

money

banknotes

Paper currency notes

bills · tender · fiat · notes · change · dollar · euro · yen · pound · peso

value

purchasing

Acquiring through payment

worth · strength · weakness · stable · volatile · reserve · hard · soft · sound · backed

circulation

flow

Unbroken forward movement

distribution · movement · velocity · turnover · release · circulating · monetary · quantity · scarcity · abundance

exchange

forex

Currency trading market

kiosk · traveler · commission · spread · pair · arbitrage · quote · fluctuation · pegging · devaluation

trading

forex

Currency trading market

futures · options · derivatives · leverage · margins · pips · spread · shorting · bullish · bearish

digital

cryptocurrency

Encrypted decentralized money

  • blockchainCryptographic linked transaction record
  • tokenRepresentative placeholder
  • walletSmall case for currency

mining · altcoin · stablecoin · digital · virtual · decentralized · ledger · crypto

figurative

influence

Power to affect others

  • cloutInformal power or punch
  • cachetRespected status or appeal
  • capitalWealth used for investment

leverage · credibility · standing · weight · bargaining · political · social · cultural · goodwill

Categories
Opposites
medium of exchange

currencybarter

Direct goods-for-goods exchange

direct exchange · commodity exchange · gift economy · subsistence economy · bartering

timeliness/relevance

currencyobsolescence

State of becoming disused

outdatedness · irrelevance · archaism · datedness · staleness

acceptance/popularity

currencyunpopularity

State of being disliked

rebuff · rejection · disuse · obscurity · marginality

Phrases
Family

current, currently, recurrent, currents, concurrent, undercurrent, currencies, crosscurrent, concurrency

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G