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
- He collects out dated coinage.
- In the context of coinage this is nonsensical.
- Agnello began the minting of the first Venetian coinage.
- Debasement lowers the value of the coinage, causing inflation.
- The monarch is the traditional image on the obverse of coinage.
- From that time the Bishop of Maguelonne had the right of coinage.
- He wrote the two volumes of 'Records of the Coinage of Scottish.'
- He collected English bronze coinage, and was known as a numismatist.
- However, it could now also debase the coinage and so increase the money supply.
- Adulterate and debase are synonymous with respect to coinage but deface is not.