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currency

A currency is the money from a particular country. A person going abroad can obtain foreign currency notes and travellers' cheques from his own bank. The US dollar ended lower against most other currencies in London. Since then the exchange value of the currency has fallen by 78%. If something has currency, it is generally accepted. After the war, these new ideas began to gain currency. The state of being up to date. A book's bibliography can be a good indicator of currency in the text.

currency

general acceptance or use the currency of ideas the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used the property of belonging to the present time the currency of a slang term

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Topics currency topics

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Examples currency examples

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Simple sentences

The exchange rates for foreign currency change daily.
You must convert dollars into the local currency.
The authorities are striving in vain to stabilize the currency.
Europe has a common currency; let's give it a common language: Esperanto.
The Euro is more than a currency.
Where can I exchange foreign currency?
Do you know what the Philippine currency is called?
Attention is a currency that I am familiar with.
Italy's currency is the euro.
The dollar was devalued against the Japanese currency from 360 yen to 308 yen.
The authorities managed to stabilize the currency.
The devaluation of the currency dealt a crippling blow to the nation's economy.
Where is the closest currency exchange?

Movie subtitles

Our former colleague who got into trouble with foreign currency?
He takes a bribe from a black-market currency trader.
Unless we can get foreign currency to buy tractors. there will not be enough bread for our people.
But I doubt our local bank will be able to convert these gold nuggets into currency.
We will support the currency.
No foreign currency?
Trojan blood is not valid currency in Sparta.
The currency of luck.
Its currency of good luck.
For the hard-currency countries.
On hard currency?
I therefore suggest that we let the ratio of block currency equal the long-Term commitments of the participating NATO countries.
I'm crazy about hard currency.
Then it would be 50 pounds in your currency.
Currency.
But lll lay you 100-1 in any currency that the lady in the next compartment is Shanghai Lily.
A currency that never devalues! - Good day, madam.
In passing, indemnities are paid in the currency of the said land.
It's so you can pay for treatment in the country where you contract the disease in local currency.
You look like a man familiar with good United States currency.
O.C.C., Office of Currency Circulation.
Mine is half over. Two years is valuable currency.
Clarification is my currency.
Oh, we are talking about currency?
These include, overhead legal charges, deflation and motisation, currency fluctuation, foreign exchange and a few other incidentals.
Money. No foreign currency?
This isn't currency anymore, is it?
Love has got bills that the currency office doesn't know.
No, I haven't got the currency right here in my hands but it's promised by an unimpeachable source.
Forgive us, M. Siegella, but the house always verifies the currency.
Not in the currency of shopkeepers, but in the currency of human fear.
Britain, America, Japan, Sweden, Austria, have devalued their currency.
Now, if we examine the figures. we see the comeback of our currency from the 1st of January.
Women always pay with the same currency. Marriage was the same. He bought me.
What an excellent idea, a currency you can drink!
The little currency of nothingness, that's the passion.
Purchase of space vessel with counterfeit currency.

News and current affairs

The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
Later writers came to recognize that there are other essential criteria for a successful currency union, which are difficult to achieve without deep political integration.
Later, Maurice Obstfeld pointed out that, in addition to fiscal transfers, a currency union needs clearly defined rules for the lender of last resort.
A logical corollary of the criteria set forth by Kenen and Obstfeld, and even of Mundell's labor-mobility criterion, is that currency unions cannot survive without political legitimacy, most likely involving region-wide popular elections.
Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.
The Deutsche Mark, already widely used in the region, now functions as the de facto common currency.
In 2014, China's currency ranked seventh in global central-bank reserves, eighth in international bond issuance, and 11th in global currency trading.
In August, the currency's exchange-rate regime was loosened slightly.
After all, international use of the currency has been growing exponentially.
Maintaining an undervalued currency has the upside that it subsidizes the production of such goods; but it also has the downside that it taxes domestic consumption - which is why it generates a trade surplus.
Conventional theory suggests that a single country (or group of countries) consolidating its finances can expect lower interest rates, a weaker currency, and an improved trade position.
The eurozone should solidify its currency union.
Wouldn't life be easier if a common market, currency, foreign policy, army, and a few other things were run on a Europe-wide basis, with the rest left to more meaningful local units?
The good news is that economic research does have a few things to say about whether Europe should have a single currency.
At a minimum, currency unions require a confederation with far more centralized power over taxation and other policies than European leaders envision for the eurozone.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
Peter Kenen argued in the late 1960's that without exchange-rate movements as a shock absorber, a currency union requires fiscal transfers as a way to share risk.
But, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.
SANTA BARBARA - The Chinese government's campaign to have its currency, the renminbi, included in the International Monetary Fund's reserve asset appears to be on the brink of success.
Renminbi-denominated government bonds were issued in London, and plans were laid to create new trading platforms for the currency in several European financial centers.
The Deutsche Mark, already widely used in the region, now functions as the de facto common currency. Any ban on its use should be lifted to make borders irrelevant for trade and investment.

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