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wildcat currency

wildcat currency noun: synonym of wildcat money.

Noun

wildcat currency (plural wildcat currencies)

  1. Synonym of wildcat money.
    • Mr. KORBLY. Not the Suffolk Bank currency? You would not call that wildcat currency?1913, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency Reform, page 427
    • The loss from "shin plasters," however, was small compared with the loss from the worthless "wildcat currency."1914, Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, History of Scranton and Its People - Volume 1, page 408
    Synonyms:
    wildcat money

Synonyms of wildcat currency

Forms of wildcat currency

pluralwildcat currencies

Questions about wildcat currency

What does wildcat currency mean?
Wildcat currency means synonym of wildcat money.
What part of speech is wildcat currency?
Wildcat currency is a noun.
What is the plural of wildcat currency?
The plural of wildcat currency is wildcat currencies.

Words near wildcat currency in the dictionary

  1. wildcat banking
  2. wildcat banks
  3. wildcat cartridge
  4. wildcat cartridges
  5. wildcat currencies
  6. wildcat currency
  7. wildcat money
  8. wildcat note
  9. wildcat notes
  10. wildcat sandwich
  11. wildcat sandwiches

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