cybercurrency

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noun

Synonym of digital currency.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nouncybercurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cybercurrencies)

plural cybercurrencies

  1. countabledatedrareuncountableSynonym of digital currency.

    The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]

    2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 36
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    Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.

    1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47

    Synonyms: digital currency

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of digital currency.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνάω (kubernáō)
  2. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  3. Englishcyberneticclip.
  4. Englishcyber-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥séti
  7. Proto-Italic*korsō
  8. Latincurrō
  9. Latincurrēns
  10. Medieval Latincurrentia
  11. Englishcurrency
  12. Englishcybercurrency

From cyber- + currency.

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Cite this entry
APA

cybercurrency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercurrency

MLA

“cybercurrency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercurrency. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cybercurrency,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercurrency.

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