Definitions
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- adjective Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value.
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- adjective of money Not in present circulation as
currency .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We women illustrators and authors have been well aware of the sexist uncurrent in the world of children's book illustrators and authors for a long time.
The other g-word Roger Sutton 2007
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Note 26 For more contemporary discussions of paper money and uncurrent bank notes, see Benjamin Davies, The Bank
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Forced to take the "uncurrent bank notes" or not receive payment at all, working men consistently lost a portion of their weekly earnings because they could not redeem the bills for their face value. 26 Every week, one could be paid in notes supposedly worth $8.25 that could only be redeemed on the street for $7 or $7.50.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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A character named Simeon Dubious attempts to pass off uncurrent bills by purchasing some "cottons" for $500 and then selling them at auction with the hopes of getting paid an equal amount or more in specie.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Shinner responds: If you have any uncurrent money by you, I can make it answer my purpose.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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At one point in The Banker, young protagonist Heartwell is stuck in arrears with uncurrent paper money worth a fraction of its face value as his only available funds.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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As uncurrent notes circulated around the neighborhood, they also caused further harm for working households.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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I cannot set so light by all the invention, the art, the wit, the grave and solid judgment which is in England, as that it can be comprehended in any twenty capacities how good soever, much less that it should not pass except their superintendence be over it, except it be sifted and strained with their strainers, that it should be uncurrent without their manual stamp.
Areopagitica 2007
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I cannot set so light by all the invention, the art, the wit, the grave and solid judgment which is in England, as that it can be comprehended in any twenty capacities how good soever, much less that it should not pass except their superintendence be over it, except it be sifted and strained with their strainers, that it should be uncurrent without their manual stamp.
Areopagitica 2007
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Anonymous/PO writes: There seems to be a strong uncurrent from moderate Dems who want to bring the party back from the edge (ie Dems for Change).
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