give currency
Example Sentences
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Central banks throughout the world try to avoid leaking decisions on interest rates and other matters because advance information could give currency traders or others an unfair advantage in the market.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
Some countries, including China, whose $3.2 trillion in reserves are the world’s largest, don’t give currency breakdowns.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 17, 2011
In 1967 Sir Patrick Dean, the British ambassador in Washington said that honouring Wodehouse would "give currency to a Bertie Wooster image of the British character which we are doing our best to eradicate".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2011
They thus, by moving in a body to the defense of one of their number, give currency, credence and support to a notion that they as a group are under attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh yes, if he would give currency to that Zoo nonsense he could be trusted not to keep the richer joke, of Jeffries in love, to himself!
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
