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coinage
[ koi-nij ]
noun
- the act, process, or right of making coins.
- the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.
- coins collectively; currency.
- the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.
- an invented or newly created word or phrase:
“Ecdysiast” is a coinage of H. L. Mencken.
- anything made, invented, or fabricated.
coinage
/ ˈɔɪɪ /
noun
- coins collectively
- the act of striking coins
- the currency of a country
- the act of inventing something, esp a word or phrase
- a newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Ǿa noun
- ԴDz·Ǿa noun
- ·Ǿa noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Many South Koreans now describe their fears that Yoon might be reinstated with a new coinage: “insurrection insomnia.”
This is where the deep thinkers of the "anti-anti-Trump" left — my own unfortunate coinage, I believe — run themselves aground trying to enlist our Great Leader as an anti-imperialist ally.
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
"They represent the very earliest examples of an independent Scottish coinage and date from the 12th and 13th Centuries."
Some large plaques also pay tribute to historic events such as the last stagecoach robbery in Kern County in 1869, in which a gunman made off with $1,700 in coinage and gold bullion.
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