paper currency

What does paper currency mean?

paper currency means "currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie".

What is another word for paper currency?

Close synonyms include paper money, folding money. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paper currency a common word?

paper currency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paper currency come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.