currencyn.

Brit.

/ˈkʌrənsi/,

/ˈkʌrn̩si/, U.S.

/ˈkərənsi/

Etymology: formed as currence n. + -ency suffix.

†1.

a. The fact or condition of flowing, flow; course; concrete a current, stream. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun]

runninga1398

goutc1400

stream14..

flowingc1440

watercourse1552

current1555

fluxc1600

gliding1600

fluor1642

currency1657

lapse1667

shoot1799

flowage1830

come1862

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > course

gangeOE

streama1552

train1570

sweep1596

river channel1629

currency1657

thread1691

current1708

urn1726

river run1927

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river

floodc825

streamc875

eaeOE

water streamOE

flumec1175

fleamc1300

riverc1300

currentc1380

reea1500

ford1563

fluent1598

draught1601

nymph1605

amnic1623

flux1637

nullah1656

R1692

currency1758

silent highway1841

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun]

currentc1380

veina1500

ford1563

tide1585

vein1600

draught1601

currency1758

stream-currenta1830

palaeocurrent1955

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 18 To preserve the currency of the stream.

1698 E. Tyson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 135 To shew the Currency of their Canalis here.

1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 11 The Currency runs..with such Force, as to render the Navigation thereof imperfect.

†b. ‘Fluency; readiness of utterance; easiness of pronunciation’ (Johnson). Obsolete.

c. Running, rapid motion.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 69 We are truly in a state of transition,—of currency rather [in a coach].

2. The course (of time); the time during which anything is current.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time

process1357

concoursec1400

coursec1460

successionc1485

passing-by1523

by-passing1526

slacka1533

continuancea1552

race1565

prolapse1585

current1587

decurse1593

passage1596

drifting1610

flux1612

effluxion1621

transcursion1622

decursion1629

devolution1629

progression1646

efflux1647

preterition1647

processus1648

decurrence1659

progress1664

fluxation1710

elapsing1720

currency1726

lapse1758

elapse1793

time-lapse1864

wearing1876

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 196 The Currency of Time to establish a Custom, ought to be with a Continuando from the beginning to the end of the Term.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 461 During the entire currency of the lease.

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 4/1 Must his exclusion run only during the currency of other parts of his sentence?

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 288 She might be in the currency of her eighth year.

3. Of money: The fact or quality of being current or passing from man to man as a medium of exchange; circulation. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > [noun]

course1457

gang1488

walking1549

current1586

currence1651

currency1699

emission1729

running1788

mobilization1801

monetarization1967

1699 J. Locke Reply to Bishop of Worcester's Answer to 2nd Let. 130 'Tis the receiving of them by others, their very passing, that gives them their Authority and Currancy.

1722 London Gaz. No. 6078/2 All such of the said Bills..lose their Currency.

1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) i. 21 (note) The papers of Drapier against the currency of Wood's Copper Coin in Ireland.

1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 15 The laws of currency and exchange.

a. That which is current as a medium of exchange; the circulating medium (whether coins or notes); the money of a country in actual use.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun]

money?a1425

medium of exchange1695

currency1729

circulation1790

circulating medium1803

1729 B. Franklin Modest Enq. 27 Money..by being coin'd..is made a Currency.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 396 The paper currencies of North America.

1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 58 If there is a large paper currency side by side with the gold.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking vii. 154 The currencies of two countries..being dissimilar.

figurative.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 48 General Miseries—the common currency of human existence.1879 T. H. S. Escott England II. 425 Their mischievous influences upon the moral currency.

b. spec. Applied to a current medium of exchange when differing in value from the money of account; e.g. the former currency and banco of Hamburg (see in banco adv.), the depreciated paper currency of various countries, and the local shillings and pence, of less value than sterling money formerly used in various British colonies.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Currency..6. The papers stamped in the English colonies by authority, and passing for money.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 85 In the province of New York, common labourers earn three shillings and sixpence currency .

1872 Japanese in Amer. 201 Paper money..is also called currency.

c. Formerly a name for native-born Australians, as distinguished from sterling, or English-born. Also attributive and as adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun]

currency1827

native1848

Australian1880

kangaroo1888

Aussie1915

dinkum1916

Ozzie1918

Aussielander1919

pie eater1953

Strine1964

Oz1976

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [adjective]

currency1827

fair dinkum1915

Oz1971

Ozzie1973

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxi. 53 Our Currency lads and lasses are a fine interesting race.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. ii. 48 The Currencies grow up tall and slender, like the Americans.

1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 220 Contests..between the colonial youth and natives of England, or, to use the phrase of the colony, between currency and sterling.

1878 Punch 10 Aug. 60/1 We currency-folk have..been able to absorb your convict refuse without contamination from its criminal leaven.

1892 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. 19 Currency, persons born in Australia, natives of England being termed ‘sterling’.

1894 W. C. Dawe (title) The confessions of a currency girl.

1899 Macmillan's Mag. June 127/1 The boys when questioned would say: ‘I'm not English; I'm Currency.’

1953 Landfall 7 173 She spoke the King's English like a currency lass.

5. The fact or quality of being current, prevalent, or generally reported and accepted among mankind; prevalence, vogue; esp. of ideas, reports, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun] > of knowledge: prevalence

currency1722

currence1854

1722 London Gaz. No. 6077/2 The Currency of the ordinary Distempers.

1798 J. Ferriar Certain Var. Man 213 The story..seems to have gained currency.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 295 Johnson's Writings, which once had such currency and celebrity, are now as it were disowned by the young generation.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §53 The currency of this belief continues.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (mostly in senses 3, 4).

currency crank n.

ΚΠ

1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) ix. 363 General discussion [on currency] has been further burked by dubbing anyone who raised the question, a ‘Currency Crank’.

1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? xi. 84 The Currency Crank is a nuisance in every movement for social reform.

currency money n.

ΚΠ

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 178 Currency-money here has depreciated..a full third.

currency-mongering n.

ΚΠ

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 5 America..has shown itself able to do strange things in the way of currency-mongering.

currency purpose n.

ΚΠ

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking viii. 160 The great advantage of coined money for currency purposes.

currency question n.

ΚΠ

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies 17 He is..particularly well read on the currency question.

currency restriction n.

ΚΠ

1967 ‘R. Simons’ Taxed to Death ix. 151 Several printed forms about currency restrictions.

C2.

currency note n. paper money used as currency, esp. the £1 and 10s. notes first issued by the Treasury for circulation as legal tender during the war of 1914–18; a treasury note.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote

bank bill1682

bill1682

note1695

money bill1713

banknote1759

post-note1788

screen1789

stiff1823

flimsy1824

shin-plaster1824

billet1837

pennif1862

toadskin1867

currency note1891

dead president1944

1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India v. 105 A currency note for a thousand rupees.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions The currency notes accumulated in the drawer.

1914 Proclamation 3 Feb. in Jrnl. Inst. Bankers (1915) 36 113 Payment for the order at its face value in coins or currency notes.

1920 Discovery May 145/1 Our over-issues of currency notes.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 969/2 The 1914 Act..allowed an issue of £1 and 10s. currency notes by the Treasury.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	currency
释义	currencyn. Brit. /ˈkʌrənsi/, /ˈkʌrn̩si/, U.S. /ˈkərənsi/ Etymology: formed as currence n. + -ency suffix. †1. a. The fact or condition of flowing, flow; course; concrete a current, stream. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] runninga1398 goutc1400 stream14.. flowingc1440 watercourse1552 current1555 fluxc1600 gliding1600 fluor1642 currency1657 lapse1667 shoot1799 flowage1830 come1862 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > course gangeOE streama1552 train1570 sweep1596 river channel1629 currency1657 thread1691 current1708 urn1726 river run1927 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river floodc825 streamc875 eaeOE water streamOE flumec1175 fleamc1300 riverc1300 currentc1380 reea1500 ford1563 fluent1598 draught1601 nymph1605 amnic1623 flux1637 nullah1656 R1692 currency1758 silent highway1841 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] currentc1380 veina1500 ford1563 tide1585 vein1600 draught1601 currency1758 stream-currenta1830 palaeocurrent1955 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 18 To preserve the currency of the stream. 1698 E. Tyson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 135 To shew the Currency of their Canalis here. 1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 11 The Currency runs..with such Force, as to render the Navigation thereof imperfect. †b. ‘Fluency; readiness of utterance; easiness of pronunciation’ (Johnson). Obsolete. c. Running, rapid motion.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 69 We are truly in a state of transition,—of currency rather [in a coach]. 2. The course (of time); the time during which anything is current. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time process1357 concoursec1400 coursec1460 successionc1485 passing-by1523 by-passing1526 slacka1533 continuancea1552 race1565 prolapse1585 current1587 decurse1593 passage1596 drifting1610 flux1612 effluxion1621 transcursion1622 decursion1629 devolution1629 progression1646 efflux1647 preterition1647 processus1648 decurrence1659 progress1664 fluxation1710 elapsing1720 currency1726 lapse1758 elapse1793 time-lapse1864 wearing1876 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 196 The Currency of Time to establish a Custom, ought to be with a Continuando from the beginning to the end of the Term. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 461 During the entire currency of the lease. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 4/1 Must his exclusion run only during the currency of other parts of his sentence? 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 288 She might be in the currency of her eighth year. 3. Of money: The fact or quality of being current or passing from man to man as a medium of exchange; circulation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > [noun] course1457 gang1488 walking1549 current1586 currence1651 currency1699 emission1729 running1788 mobilization1801 monetarization1967 1699 J. Locke Reply to Bishop of Worcester's Answer to 2nd Let. 130 'Tis the receiving of them by others, their very passing, that gives them their Authority and Currancy. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6078/2 All such of the said Bills..lose their Currency. 1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) i. 21 (note) The papers of Drapier against the currency of Wood's Copper Coin in Ireland. 1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 15 The laws of currency and exchange. 4. a. That which is current as a medium of exchange; the circulating medium (whether coins or notes); the money of a country in actual use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] money?a1425 medium of exchange1695 currency1729 circulation1790 circulating medium1803 1729 B. Franklin Modest Enq. 27 Money..by being coin'd..is made a Currency. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 396 The paper currencies of North America. View more context for this quotation 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 58 If there is a large paper currency side by side with the gold. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking vii. 154 The currencies of two countries..being dissimilar. figurative.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 48 General Miseries—the common currency of human existence.1879 T. H. S. Escott England II. 425 Their mischievous influences upon the moral currency. b. spec. Applied to a current medium of exchange when differing in value from the money of account; e.g. the former currency and banco of Hamburg (see in banco adv.), the depreciated paper currency of various countries, and the local shillings and pence, of less value than sterling money formerly used in various British colonies. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Currency..6. The papers stamped in the English colonies by authority, and passing for money. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 85 In the province of New York, common labourers earn three shillings and sixpence currency . View more context for this quotation 1872 Japanese in Amer. 201 Paper money..is also called currency. c. Formerly a name for native-born Australians, as distinguished from sterling, or English-born. Also attributive and as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] currency1827 native1848 Australian1880 kangaroo1888 Aussie1915 dinkum1916 Ozzie1918 Aussielander1919 pie eater1953 Strine1964 Oz1976 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [adjective] currency1827 fair dinkum1915 Oz1971 Ozzie1973 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxi. 53 Our Currency lads and lasses are a fine interesting race. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. ii. 48 The Currencies grow up tall and slender, like the Americans. 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 220 Contests..between the colonial youth and natives of England, or, to use the phrase of the colony, between currency and sterling. 1878 Punch 10 Aug. 60/1 We currency-folk have..been able to absorb your convict refuse without contamination from its criminal leaven. 1892 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. 19 Currency, persons born in Australia, natives of England being termed ‘sterling’. 1894 W. C. Dawe (title) The confessions of a currency girl. 1899 Macmillan's Mag. June 127/1 The boys when questioned would say: ‘I'm not English; I'm Currency.’ 1953 Landfall 7 173 She spoke the King's English like a currency lass. 5. The fact or quality of being current, prevalent, or generally reported and accepted among mankind; prevalence, vogue; esp. of ideas, reports, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun] > of knowledge: prevalence currency1722 currence1854 1722 London Gaz. No. 6077/2 The Currency of the ordinary Distempers. 1798 J. Ferriar Certain Var. Man 213 The story..seems to have gained currency. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 295 Johnson's Writings, which once had such currency and celebrity, are now as it were disowned by the young generation. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §53 The currency of this belief continues. Compounds C1. General attributive (mostly in senses 3, 4). currency crank n. ΚΠ 1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) ix. 363 General discussion [on currency] has been further burked by dubbing anyone who raised the question, a ‘Currency Crank’. 1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? xi. 84 The Currency Crank is a nuisance in every movement for social reform. currency money n. ΚΠ 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 178 Currency-money here has depreciated..a full third. currency-mongering n. ΚΠ 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 5 America..has shown itself able to do strange things in the way of currency-mongering. currency purpose n. ΚΠ 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking viii. 160 The great advantage of coined money for currency purposes. currency question n. ΚΠ 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies 17 He is..particularly well read on the currency question. currency restriction n. ΚΠ 1967 ‘R. Simons’ Taxed to Death ix. 151 Several printed forms about currency restrictions. C2. currency note n. paper money used as currency, esp. the £1 and 10s. notes first issued by the Treasury for circulation as legal tender during the war of 1914–18; a treasury note. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote bank bill1682 bill1682 note1695 money bill1713 banknote1759 post-note1788 screen1789 stiff1823 flimsy1824 shin-plaster1824 billet1837 pennif1862 toadskin1867 currency note1891 dead president1944 1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India v. 105 A currency note for a thousand rupees. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions The currency notes accumulated in the drawer. 1914 Proclamation 3 Feb. in Jrnl. Inst. Bankers (1915) 36 113 Payment for the order at its face value in coins or currency notes. 1920 Discovery May 145/1 Our over-issues of currency notes. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 969/2 The 1914 Act..allowed an issue of £1 and 10s. currency notes by the Treasury. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1657
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