coinage
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
coinages
plural
coinages
Britannica Dictionary definition of COINAGE
1
a
[noncount]
:
the act of creating a new word or phrase that other people begin to use
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“Blog” is a word of recent coinage. [=a word that was recently created]
b
[count]
:
a word that someone has created
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The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
2
[noncount]
a
:
money in the form of coins
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Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
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an expert in Chinese coinage
b
:
the act or process of creating coins
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the coinage of money
