Reader question: What does this sentence – Reports concerning bad government affairs often gain currency in foreign press – mean, especially “gain currency”?
My comments: It means that foreign media enjoy talking bad about the government.
“Currency” has nothing to do with, well, money. Here it means popularity. For reports, or ideas and principles for that matter, to gain currency is for them to get widespread.
Think of money though, and water as currency is definitely related to current, as in water current. With enough water, currents form in a river. Currency, on the other hand, is money that circulates. There has to be a lot of people using it for a type of money to become a currency, hence the meaning of something gaining currency as gaining popularity. The US dollar, for instance, has long been a world currency, in fact known as THE hard currency. Lately, however, the Japanese yen and increasingly the euro have gained currency (become more popular), as the American greenback loses value. Even the Chinese yuan has gained currency (having been accepted ever more widely), especially in Southeast Asia and the Far East.
Anyways, just remember currency as something that circulates – has to be something great in number of course. If it gains currency, it gathers momentum, becoming widely accepted, used, favored, etc.
Here are recent media examples:
1. The controversial scheme whereby clubs would play an additional match overseas each season, was met with widespread opposition earlier this year, but recently the Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, claimed that the idea was gaining currency at home and abroad.
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