(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(2) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(3) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(4) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(5) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(6) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(7) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(8) Single-currency membership has no bearing on the foreign policy post.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(12) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(13) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(14) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(15) Spain was the worst hit of the currency bloc's major economies with a 0.8% drop in industrial production.
(16) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(17) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(18) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
(19) But persistent falls in the currency’s value during December towards the previous low point has increased the cost of imported goods and forced businesses to say that price rises are in the pipeline.
(20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?
Dinar
Definition:
(n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.
(n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.
Example Sentences:
(1) The regime has restricted individuals' cash withdrawals to 1,000 dinars a month – its calculation of the amount needed for daily living.
(2) A comparison and evaluation of a range of basic anatomic relationships underlying facial form in Angle Class I and Class II dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, mesocephalic, and dinaric types of headform.
(3) Any money she doesn’t use from her 10.5 Jordanian dinars (£10) of humanitarian assistance a month goes to them.
(4) Or [Libyan coastguards] will arrest me and take me to prison, and I will pay 500 dinar to get out.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoretti, carrying survivors of the boat that overturned off the coast of Libya, arrives at Catania on 20 April.
(5) The cost of a complete diagnostic process (on the first of April, 1986) was 5.717 dinars, which means that the cost of a diagnosed carcinoma was 307.765 dinars.
(6) They are only getting 40 dinars (£20) a night, and they are saying we don't want to do this dirty work any more."
(7) How can you expect a peshmerga with a 500,000-dinar salary to fight Isis while officials get far more benefits?
(8) A few paid as much as 7,000 dinars (about £3,500).
(9) Their photographs appeared at the end of a 23-minute video depicting his death, along with an offer of a bounty of 100 gold dinars (roughly $20,000) for each pilot killed.
(10) Both America and Iraq will succeed when every Arab government has an embassy open in Baghdad, and the child in Basra benefits from services provided by Iraqi dinars, not American tax dollars.
(11) I pay 500,000 dinars for rent and if it was not for my taxi I would not have been able to live.
(12) The 31-year-old government employee was happy to pay a small amount of his 835,000 dinar (£490) salary that came from Baghdad to Isis as tax, and even donated an extra 7,000 dinars to the caliphate voluntarily.
(13) Two weeks on, the price has already increased to 1,500 dinar.
(14) "We fought previous regimes out of conviction but these days a peshmerga receives around 500,000 dinars (£260) per month.
(15) The man is nice to me, he brings me two meals a day … Sometimes I get half a dinar extra, which I keep myself.
(16) · Bremer maintained one slush fund of nearly $600m in cash for which there is no paperwork: $200m of it was kept in a room in one of Saddam's former palaces · 19 billion new Iraqi dinars, worth about £6.5m, was found on a plane in Lebanon that had been sent there by the new Iraqi interior minister · One ministry claimed to be paying 8,206 guards, but only 602 could be found · One American agent was given $23m to spend on restructuring; only $6m is accounted for This is an edited version of an article that appears in the current issue of the London Review of Books ( lrb ).
(17) "In Niger there is work, but its maybe 10 [dinar] a day.
(18) Fuel In Mosul, the price of petrol has increased from 450 dinars to 2,000-2,500 dinars.
(19) The analysis of costs of water fluoridation in October 1988 was 250 dinars per inhabitant.
(20) There, Moussa paid a smuggler 700 dinar (about £350) to put Mbalo on a boat.