"widespread currency" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a form of money or currency that is accepted and used widely by a large group of people. You can use this phrase when discussing the use and circulation of different types of money or when comparing the popularity or acceptance of different currencies in a particular region or country. Example: "Although the US dollar is the widespread currency in many countries, the Euro is gaining popularity and is now accepted in most European nations."
Such ideas had surprisingly widespread currency.
The notion of the heav'n-taught Scottish patriot ploughman clearly still has widespread currency.
But like the largely hopeless attempt to get cities to adopt local mayors, the idea never gained widespread currency.
To begin with, during the 1970s it was a way of moving cash around at a time of widespread currency controls across Europe.
All eight students firmly denied that Jewish temples had ever stood in Jerusalem, a repudiation that has gained widespread currency among Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim.
Neither do earmarks, the budget goodies targeted to individual districts that were once a widespread currency of congressional dealmaking (something we lamented here).
But by the nineteenth century, with the push for universal education, books began to hold widespread social currency; she calls 1850 to 1950 "the century of the book".
The concept of the bucket list — places one wants to visit, experiences one wants to undergo, and accomplishments one wants to master before dying — has gained widespread cultural currency, and that the President should talk of having one should not be surprising.
Startups such as Jambool and Spare Change have launched virtual currencies that are interoperable across a range of games, applications and social networks, but Twofish's Rutherford believes only a company of Facebook's size can deliver the "brand promise" that would give a universal currency widespread appeal.
By Sam Marx and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 29 , 1951P. 13 The global activities of American movie companies, stimulated by the widespread blocking of currencies, have brought many small, ambitious film organizations into existence in faraway places.
The New Yorker, December 29 , 1951P. 13 The global activities of American movie companies, stimulated by the widespread blocking of currencies, have brought many small, ambitious film organizations into existence in faraway places.
