Money vs. Currency

Moneynoun

A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.

Moneynoun

A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.

Moneynoun

A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

Moneynoun

Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.

Moneynoun

The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.

Moneynoun

Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth

Moneynoun

An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.

Moneynoun

A person who funds an operation.

Moneynoun

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.

Moneynoun

Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

Moneynoun

Any article used as a medium of payment in financial transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.

Moneynoun

Any form of wealth which affects a person's propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit, etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are given different names, such as M-1, the total sum of all currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit accounts (checking accounts).

Moneynoun

In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.

Moneyverb

To supply with money.

Moneynoun

the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender;

Moneynoun

wealth reckoned in terms of money;

Moneynoun

the official currency issued by a government or national bank;

Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

Currencynoun

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

Currencynoun

Paper money.

Currencynoun

The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.

Currencynoun

(obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance

Currencynoun

(obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Currencynoun

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

Currencynoun

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.

Currencynoun

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.

Currencynoun

Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Currencynoun

Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Currencynoun

the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used

Currencynoun

general acceptance or use;

Currencynoun

a current state of general acceptance and use

Currencynoun

the property of belonging to the present time;

Currencynoun

a system of money in general use in a particular country

Currencynoun

the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use

Currencynoun

the time during which something is in use or operation

Currency

A currency in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially for people in a nation.