Coinage

Quick meaning: Coinage is a noun meaning The process of coining money.

Meaning

The process of coining money.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
2. (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
3. (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
4. The process of creating something new.

Example Sentences

The Minoan age had not only an elaborate system of weights, but the first beginnings of a coinage.

Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.

My father was one of those persons who could add a column of figures - even of the ridiculous coinage then in use locally - with a flick of the eye, so that it was natural for him to have in mind that I should become an accountant.

According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.

Word Forms

• coinages

Synonyms for coinage

Depending on context, synonyms include neologism, specie, neology, mintage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mintage, neology, neologism, specie, mint, coin.

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