coinage
IPA: kˈɔɪnɪdʒ
noun
- The process of coining money.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- The process of creating something new.
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Examples of "coinage" in Sentences
- Stand back, everybody, I feel a new word coinage coming on.
- I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness.
- Another Italian word, imbroglio, “a confused entanglement,” was used by editors of The New Republic in a portmanteau coinage.
- Then, as now, the change in coinage was politically sensitive because the public had expressed dissatisfaction with lightweight British copper coins.
- There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting.
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