weak currency

collocation in English

meaningsofweakandcurrency

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weak
adjective
uk
/wiːk/us
/wiːk/
not ...
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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 ofweakandcurrencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofweak currency

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The recovery of the euro did belie critics who had initially derided it as aweakcurrency.
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Even so, the euro has not become aweakcurrency.
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I do not understand why he assumes that sterling outside the euro would necessarily be aweakcurrency.
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If sterling is to stay out of thatweakcurrency, may it not attract similar speculation?
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We all know that a strong currency has its own problems, but its problems are much preferable to those of aweakcurrency.
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The second reason was inflation because inflation will lead to aweakcurrency.
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I was always taught that if a country can only export because it has aweakcurrency, that country is decadent.
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In my opinion, a country which wants aweakcurrencyis a decadent country.
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Or do we prefer more publicly financed welfare and aweakcurrency?
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I assume that that was his code for saying that he cannot, therefore, support the euro, given that it is such aweakcurrency.
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There is no inherent value in either a strong or aweakcurrency.
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Frankly, the general position is that devaluation and aweakcurrencyare a burden and a detriment.
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At the moment, the euro is aweakcurrency.
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It is only during the last 20 years or so that we have had aweakcurrency.
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Further, theweakcurrencyhas no bargaining power.
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There are greater pressures for a tightening of monetary policy—that is, higher interest rates for aweakcurrency—than a relaxation for a strong currency.
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This is not the time for an economic debate—we shall have plenty of that in the next week or two—but the problem is a stagnant economy and aweakcurrency.
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Would we prefer aweakcurrency?
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Discussion of this issue is therefore both necessary and sensible, in order that the euro may in the long term become a strong rather than aweakcurrency.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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