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single currency, n. and a.
Brit. |ˌsɪŋgl ˈkʌrənsi|, U.S. |ˌsɪŋg(ə)l ˈkərənsi|
[‹ single adj. + currency n.]
A. n. One monetary unit common to a number of nations, territories, etc., each of which also has, or formerly had, its own separate currency; spec. = single European currency n.
1900C. J. Bullock Ess. Monetary Hist. U.S. iii. i. 209 The bills issued by each New England province came to circulate freely in all the others... The result was that practically a single currency..circulated in New England until 1749. 1943Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 1116 A picture, not of a federation of European states, but of a unitary international system..in which a single currency, free trade, unrestricted internal migration, and a common auxiliary tongue will obliterate national frontiers. 1970N.Y. Times 27 Mar. 51/1 ALthough still ‘distant and nebulous’, the European Common Market's goal of a single currency can produce powerful competition to the dollar in world business. 1989H. Lydall Yugoslavia in Crisis (BNC) 182 The system led to ‘the obstruction of foreign exchange flows between regions and banks [and] the reduction of the role of the dinar as a single currency and means of payment in a unified Yugoslav market’. 2002Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 1/3 The Foreign Secretary..tried to lessen the impression that Britain was ready to sign up to the single currency.
B. adj. (attrib.).
1. Of, belonging or relating to, or dealing in only one form of currency.
1952Econometrica 20 521 Rationing may be represented as the replacement of a single-currency system with a multiple-currency system. 1968Rev. Econ. & Statistics 50 188/1 The results of this analysis reinforce the single-currency result of section III. 1982Internat. Organization 36 738 With trade usually concentrated with a single nation, a basket peg appears a poor alternative to either the unattainable float or the constricting single-currency peg. 1997Independent 4 Feb. i. 13/1 If..the British economy is suffering by remaining outside a single currency bloc, then the chances are a Labour government will sign up to the euro.
2. spec. Designating a loan or mortgage made in a single currency that is not the recipient's national currency.
1978National Westm. Bank Q. Rev. 20 The Bank usually lends in several currencies and repayments are due in the currencies disbursed. But more recently it has introduced single currency loans. 1989Times (Nexis) 30 Dec. The presumed risk of an ECU mortgage is much smaller than a single currency mortgage. 1992Which Mortgage? (BNC) Feb. 28 The single currency mortgage allows you to take out a loan in Sterling, which the lender converts into another currency. 2001Times of India 14 June 11/3 The loan will be under standard terms applicable to variable spread single currency loan with a rate of interest based on LIBOR. |