Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Coinage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From {Coin}, v. t., cf. {Cuinage}.]
1. The act or process of converting metal into money.
The care of the coinage was committed to the
inferior magistrates. --Arbuthnot.
2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3. The cost or expense of coining money.
4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation;
fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
``Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.'' --Dryden.
This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
coinage
n 1: coins collectively [syn: {mintage}, {specie}, {metal money}]
2: a newly invented word or phrase [syn: {neologism}, {neology}]
3: the act of inventing a word or phrase [syn: {neologism}, {neology}]
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