form of currency

collocation in English

meaningsofformandcurrency

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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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currency
noun
uk
/ˈkʌr.ən.si/us
/ˈkɝː.ən.si/
the money that is used in a particular country at a ...
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(Definition offormandcurrencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Money is typically redeemable in cash, in theformofcurrency, but currency is not essential to the existence or functioning of money.
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Movers contact their bank in a decentralized manner and withdraw resources in theformofcurrencyand/or liquidated investment.
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We know that on that reserve has been issued, in theformofcurrency, a further sum of £275,000,000.
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This does not strike me as being an entirely stableformofcurrency.
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Thus, inevitably, we feel there should be someformofcurrency.
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This does not mean that trading stamps can be treated as aformofcurrency.
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The points scheme on which the coupons are used makes the coupons into aformofcurrency.
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One of their purposes is to prevent items, such as postage stamps, from being used as aformofcurrencywithin prisons.
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Therefore, we have all these modern necromancers advocating a change from oneformofcurrencyto another.
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We have definitely and deliberately rejected thatformofcurrency.
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Whateverformofcurrencyit might be, we could not have it without legislation.
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Practically the whole of the issue has been made to banks either in theformofcurrencynotes advances or upon payment of the face value.
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Scrip as a de factoformofcurrencywithin the setting of the mining or logging industry was discontinued around 1952.
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At that time, whiskey was used as aformofcurrencyon the frontier.
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Other items used in trade as aformofcurrencyincluded salt, cloth, and bars of gold.
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In addition, players collect aformofcurrencythat they can use to buy items in the store.
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Cattle, sheep and goats were regarded as aformofcurrencyand a store of wealth, and are not generally consumed as food.
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Flax was able to be grown, which was turned into linen or canvas for clothes and used as aformofcurrency.
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Their shells have also been used as aformofcurrencyin some preindustrial societies.
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Labor notes are aformofcurrencymarked in labor hours (adjusted for different types of labor based on their difficulty or repugnance).
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