currency
Many informal expressions are gaining currency in serious newspapers.许多非正式表达方法正在为严肃报刊所接受。
The idea really gained currency in the 20th century.
The notion of pan-European cooperation was gaining much currency at that time.
The president needed to scotch the rumour before it gained wide currency.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing
accepting
accommodation
accreditation
agree to something
agree with something
assent
compact
conclusion
countenance
currency
formal
presumed consent
ratification
re-establish
regrant
revalidate
root
signatory
unquestioning
without a murmuridiom