a continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.-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.-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.-fluency; readiness of utterance.-current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.