Definition
the currency: the type of money used in a country (Pounds, Dollars, Yen, Euros etc.)
-What is the currency of Japan? -The Yen.
Where will you buy your foreign currency? -At the Post Office before I go on holiday.
- "Aussie : Because the currencies are not the same: 1 American Dollar is 1.1 Australian Dollars."
- "Five years ago, a sheik of the Royal House of Bahreindeer deposited a huge sum of American currency in my bank."
- "What's that in US currency?"
- "Icarus : Yes, but... Horatio, normally the average cost of your monthly supplies is around 600 dollars, US currency."
- "What is the currency of Sweden?"
- "1... 1.1... the currencies are virtually the same."
- "It has very, err, primitive spreadsheet capabilities and the payroll program still measures French currency in Francs."
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