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coinage

[ koi-nij ]

noun

  1. the act, process, or right of making coins.
  2. the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.
  3. coins collectively; currency.
  4. the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.
  5. an invented or newly created word or phrase:

    “Ecdysiast” is a coinage of H. L. Mencken.

  6. anything made, invented, or fabricated.


coinage

/ ˈɔɪɪ /

noun

  1. coins collectively
  2. the act of striking coins
  3. the currency of a country
  4. the act of inventing something, esp a word or phrase
  5. a newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of coinage1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Middle French word coignaige. See coin, -age
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Many South Koreans now describe their fears that Yoon might be reinstated with a new coinage: “insurrection insomnia.”

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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.

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It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.

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"They represent the very earliest examples of an independent Scottish coinage and date from the 12th and 13th Centuries."

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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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