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Noun currency has 4 senses

currency - the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
--₁ is a kind of medium of exchange, monetary system
--₁ has particulars:
money; Eurocurrency; cash, hard cash, hard currency; paper money, folding money, paper currency; coinage, mintage, specie, metal money
currency - general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
--₂ is a kind of prevalence
currency, vogue - a current state of general acceptance and use
--₃ is a kind of acceptance
currentness, currency, up-to-dateness - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"
--₄ is a kind of presentness, nowness
--₄ has particulars:
modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness