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Coinage

Coinage Meaning & Definition
Coinage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Coinage?

[n] the act of inventing a word or phrase
[n] a newly invented word or phrase
[n] coins collectively

Synonyms | Synonyms for Coinage: metal money | mintage | neologism | neologism | neology | neology | specie

Related Terms | Find terms related to Coinage: and pence | artifact | authorship | beginning | brainchild | breakthrough | cash | child | circulating medium | coined liberty | coining | cold cash | composition | conception | concoction | contrivance | contriving | counterfeiting | creation | creative effort | creature | crowning achievement | currency | devising | discovery | distillation | dollars | effect | emergency money | end product | essence | extract | fabrication | filthy lucre | forgery | fractional currency | fruit | generation | ghost word | gold | handiwork | hard cash | hard currency | hatching | improvisation | innovation | introduction | invention | issue | leap | legal tender | lucre | making do | mammon | managed currency | manufacture | masterpiece | masterwork | medium of exchange | mintage | money | necessity money | neologism | neology | neoterism | new mintage | new phase | new sense | new word | newfangled expression | nonce word | novelty | offspring | opera | opus | opuscule | origination | outcome | outgrowth | pelf | postage currency | postal currency | pounds | product | production | result | scrip | shillings | silver | soft currency | specie | stamping | sterling | striking | the almighty dollar | the wherewith | the wherewithal | work

See Also | coin | currency | invention | word

Coinage In Webster's Dictionary

\Coin"age\, n. [From {Coin}, v. t., cf. {Cuinage}.] 1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. --Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. ``Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.'' --Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak.

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