(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?
Lira
Definition:
(n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Turkish lira has dropped to an 18-month low since protests began, notes the Christian Science Monitor's Tom A. Peter, who adds that Erdogan's popularity has been tied to strong economic growth on his watch.
(2) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
(3) Educated at a Protestant missionary school in Lira, he entered Makerere University College in Kampala in 1948, but dropped out after two years, completing his formal education with a number of correspondence courses.
(4) Only 10 [Turkish] lira [£2.60],” offers Ahmed*, a boy in ill-fitting, mud-stained trousers, his bare feet barely filling his worn-out shoes.
(5) He paid 45,000 lira (£32, equivalent to about £300 today) for two paintings that caught his eye – one a still life and the other an image of a woman relaxing in her garden.
(6) Now I get 1,200 lira [£295], whereas a Turk would get 2,200 lira [£540] for the same work.
(7) Awards in full Women’s world player of the year: Carli Lloyd Puskas award: Wendell Lira World coach of the year for men’s football: Luis Enrique World coach of the year for women’s football: Jill Ellis World XI : Manuel Neuer; Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Dani Alves; Andrès Iniesta, Luka Modric, Paul Pogba; Neymar, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo.
(8) In Italy some recent data documented that the social costs in relation to osteoporosis fractures can be evaluated in 1983 between 80 and 153 milliard liras.
(9) The epidemiological picture and the economic consequences of hydatidosis in man and livestock, a damage of 28 billions of liras per year, strongly suggest this disease as a major public health problem in Sardinia.
(10) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, who once said that a third bridge "would mean the murder of the city", has thrown his weight behind the 4.5bn Turkish lira (£1.6bn) project and the bridge is now predicted to open as early as 2015.
(11) A well-known example is the Indorama Shebeen el-Kom spinning factory, which has witnessed 95 strikes since being privatised in 2006 after the new owners refused to pay up to 10m Egyptian liras in bonuses to staff.
(12) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(13) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
(14) The Italian lira underwent repeated devaluations between 1973 and 1976, and the devaluation in 1992 brought the euro's precursor, the Exchange Rate Mechanism, to its knees.
(15) The expenses for hospital charges due to venous diseases were estimated in 163,827,000,000 of Italian liras, 136,522,500 US.
(16) In the beginning, torture was applied in military station units and in police stations, in the facilities of sport fields and prisoners' camps; but above all, in clandestine detention centers and prisons belonging to the secret police (Amnesty International 1977, 1983; CODEPU 1984, 1985, 1986; Lira and Weinstein 1987; Muñoz 1986; Rodríguez de Ruiz-Tagle 1978).
(17) The overall cost of a single mechanical suture was markedly lower than that of a single manual suture (934.000 vs 2,209.000 Italian lira).
(18) Do you know anyone who can help?” The man gives him a few lira to buy bread, and promises to help him find not a smuggler but a job.
(19) The drivers [of the minibuses] get 500 lira per bag.” Neither of them are Isis supporters.
(20) Amid all the aid-speak about improving farmers' livelihoods in the predominantly agricultural region, Okech points to the major unexpected impact of a Chinese-built road between two Ugandan towns, Soroti and Lira.