soft currency noun [C]

(Economics )

money whose value often falls so is not easy to exchange for money from another country:

If a soft-currency country wants to import something, it must earn or borrow one of the hard currencies to pay for it

⇨ HARD CURRENCY

• consumer credit
• consumer debt
• consumer demand
• consumer durables
• consumer electronics
• consumer equilibrium
• consumer finance
• consumer goods
• consumer group
• consumerism
• consumer loan
• consumer magazine
• consumer market
• consumer non-durables
• consumer panel
• consumer preference
• consumer price
• consumer price index
• consumer price inflation
• consumer promotion
• consumer protection
• consumer research
• consumer resistance
• consumers' cooperative
• consumer society