(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?
Monetize
Definition:
(v. t.) To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.
Example Sentences:
(1) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(2) The analyses are incomplete, however, due to their inability to incorporate potentially important costs and benefits that are hard to measure and monetize.
(3) Relax on the bench at the foot of the cathedral, where Monet stood and painted his series of cathedral images.
(4) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(5) They are people with a purpose in life (and are convinced everyone would be better off not smoking), but others can have a purpose in life as I do, which I'm quite convinced keeps me going, as did Monet (never seen without a cigarette in his mouth).
(6) The museum chief’s remarks followed an agreement signed in Berlin on Monday between Germany and Switzerland which will see Bern taking on several hundred works from the collection – much of which works amassed during the Nazi era and included paintings and drawings by Marc Chagall, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.
(7) Google has been remarkably successful in its ability to monetize users, but has not shown the willingness, even though it clearly has the ability, to respect fundamental property rights.
(8) Rory Carroll reports: Asked whether this launch is a response to pressure to monetize, Zuckberg laughs it off.
(9) Also sprach Analyst (@theanalyst_hk) Lending money to me for 3 years or less is not lending # joke September 3, 2012 zerohedge (@zerohedge) 30-40 minutes until Germany says monetizing ANY debt is state aid and violation of Article 123 September 3, 2012 And the controversial... zerohedge (@zerohedge) Since everyone is an expert on "legitimate rape", who will be first to define "legitimate monetization" September 3, 2012 Whatever the view, Draghi's comments give some indication of what the ECB is likely to announce on Thursday.
(10) The buyer of Monet’s Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, les Rosiers for $20.41m, meanwhile, was China’s Dalian Wanda Group.
(11) This began to change later in the 1880s – George Henry's Sundown or River Landscape by Moonlight (1887) takes Monet's Impression of 15 years before and transfers it from Le Havre to the Clyde.
(12) Van Gogh is on their radar, Monet, Picasso, Bacon, Warhol and a couple of others.” What the rich billionaire particularly wants is art that is demonstrably desirable and fresh to the market, which is the case for the Ofili work.
(13) Every number you dial, every page you look at on your mobile browser, every text message you send, every app that you use - basically everything you do on your phone becomes material for Facebook to use and monetize.
(14) The company announced on Wednesday that it has raised $225m in its most recent funding round and that the funds will be used to test new monetization models, to expand internationally and to improve infrastructure.
(15) The latest manifestation of our obsession with the man is Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings which opens at Tate Liverpool this month.
(16) A blogpost written by server provider Towncraft states: If this EULA clarification was really about protecting players, Mojang would have stepped in against “pay-to-win” servers a long time before their Minecraft Realms service popped on the scene [...] Mark my words… Mojang can only sell so many copies of Minecraft before they need to find another way to monetize it.
(17) "Every number you dial, every page you look at on your mobile browser, every text message you send, every app that you use – basically everything you do on your phone becomes material for Facebook to use and monetize," commented one Guardian user, Leviathan212 .
(18) More than 60 additional pieces of art – including works by Picasso, Renoir and Monet – have been discovered in the Austrian home of a reclusive elderly German art collector who was revealed last year to be in possession of hundreds of paintings thought to have been stolen by the Nazis.
(19) Masterpieces by Picasso, Renoir, Monet and Vincent van Gogh were among 60 lots which raised more than £61m during a spectacular evening at Sotheby's in London.
(20) The £400m museum will feature paintings and sculptures from 13 French cultural institutions, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Claude Monet’s Saint Lazare Station and Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair as well as ancient statues, vases and masks from across Asia and Africa.