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US
/ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
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[ UK /kˈɔɪnɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔɪnɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- coins collectively
- a newly invented word or phrase
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
How To Use coinage In A Sentence
- Since the late recoinage of the gold, however, it is believed to have been a good deal under-rated. I. Book IV. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System
- Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
- When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
- This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
- However, a bimetallic monetary system of coinage was also established by the Constitutional mandate to Congress to ‘coin Money, regulate the Value thereof’.
- He also attempted to fine tune the money supply with mintage of new gold coinage and adulterated silver coins.
- Trade Viticulture was also important to the economy of many cities, as is shown by the number of states whose coinage bears wine-related designs.
- Acquiring gold and silver was vital for coinage and, in the late Empire, for official payments in plate and ingots.
- As a psychological phenomenon, physiognomic perception has profound effects upon words' evolvement including coinage, word formation, and change of word meaning.
- The moral is obvious, and as old as history; but herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2