EUROCURRENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eurocurrency mean? 

• EUROCURRENCY (noun)
  The noun EUROCURRENCY has 1 sense:

1. currency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing

  Familiarity information: EUROCURRENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUROCURRENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Currency of the major financial and industrial countries held in those countries for the purpose of lending and borrowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("Eurocurrency" is a kind of...):

currency (the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eurocurrency"):

Eurodollar (a United States dollar deposited in a European bank and used as an international currency to finance trade)