coinages
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Noun
coinages, plural;
/ˈkoinij/,
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coinages, plural;
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Coins collectively
- - the volume of coinage in circulation
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The action or process of producing coins from metal
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A system or type of coins in use
- - decimal coinage
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The invention of a new word or phrase
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A newly invented word or phrase
Web Definitions:
- (coinage) coins collectively
- (coinage) neologism: a newly invented word or phrase
- COINage is a monthly American special-interest magazine targeting numismatists and coin investors. The magazine was originally published on a quarterly basis by Behn-Miller Publications, Inc., under the joint ownership of Gordon Behn and COINage editorial director James L. Miller. ...
- (coinage) The process of coining money; Coins taken collectively; currency; The creation of new words, neologizing; Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word
- (Coinage) Any metallic instrument of value that is circulated as money such as the silver dollar, gold dollar, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, or twenty dollar gold piece.
- (Coinage) Copper alloys are used in coinage. For example, U.S. pennies are 2.5 percent copper and 97.5 percent zinc by weight; nickels are 75.0 percent copper and 25.0 percent nickel; dimes and quarters are 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel.
- (Coinage) Punch marked silver ingots, in circulation around the 5th century BC and the first metallic coins were minted around 6th century BC by the Mahajanapadas of the Gangetic plains were the earliest traces of coinage in India. ...
- (Coinage) The deliberate or accidental creation of a new, artificial name. Exxon, Cysive, Cambira and Attenza are examples of coinage.
- (Coinage) The issuance of metallic money of a particular country.
- created without using any of the methods described and without using any other word or word parts already existing. Created out of thin air, like the brand names Kodak, Exxon; and words like pooch and snob.