Collocations for "currency"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "currency" in context.
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currency
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- [a foreign, the local, Russian] currency
- is a universal currency
- is a [hard, soft, weak] currency
- the single European currency
- use a single currency
- trade in (foreign) currencies
- [convert, change, sell] currencies
- the conversion of currency
- select your currency
- the currency was [devalued, revalued]
- [tobacco, marijuana] is the currency in prison
- prisoners use [cigarettes, stamps] as currency
- is the [national, legal] currency of [China]
- the [idea, term, story, notion] gained (greater) currency
- gained (great) currency among
- an [idea] that [holds, has, enjoys] great currency today
- the [idea] no longer [holds] currency
- cannot [vouch for, guarantee] its currency
- on the currency exchange
- use a currency converter
- currency [speculation, trading, investment, conversion]
'currency' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
European
- Japanese
- Swedish
- Swiss
- conversion
- counterfeit
- escalation
- exchange
- hard
- prison
- real
- realm
- retire
- single
- stable
- strength
- strengthening
- symbol
- tender
- trader