(currencies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The money used in a particular country is referred to as its ~.
Tourism is the country’s top earner of foreign ~...
More people favour a single European ~ than oppose it.
N-VAR
2.
If a custom, idea, or word has ~, it is used and accepted by a lot of people at a particular time. (FORMAL)
‘Loop’ is one of those computer words that has gained ~ in society.
= acceptance
N-UNCOUNT
3.
see also common ~