How to pronounce currency
American English pronunciation
KUR-un-see
- IPA
- /ˈkɝənsi/
- Syllables
- KUR · un · see (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What currency means
The kind of money a country uses
In a sentence: When we visited Mexico, we traded our dollars for the local currency.
Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word meaning "flowing," the same old word that gave us the current of a river.
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