coinage

noun

coin·age ˈkȯi-nij

Synonyms of coinage next

: the act or process of coining

: coins

: something (such as a word) made up or invented

Example Sentences

The word “blog” is a recent coinage. Coinage was scarce in the colonies. an expert in Chinese coinage

Recent Examples on the Web So the movie will require a little more coinage than Peele’s past films to turn a profit. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 July 2022 Around the same time, the Greeks came up with a pretty nifty invention — coinage. —

Richard Jakiel, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019 That said, Yazony begins with the undeniable reality that the liberalism that has dominated American life since the 1960s — my own 1997 coinage was Liberaldom — is now surrendering its strongholds such as the New York Times and the Ivy League to a rising Marxism. —

John O'sullivan, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020 Though English authorities had banned the creation of colonial coinage, the Massachusetts General Court defied this order by commissioning silversmith John Hull and his assistant Robert Sanderson to produce the first coins struck in North America in 1652. —

Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021 The quarters will become circulating coinage. —

Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021 Who will oversee digital coinage? —

Gregory Barber, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021 The first major outbreaks of mania among England's teenage population were reported in the fall of 1963 when, in the wake of their first national television appearances and a series of BBC radio shows, the Fab Four—a coinage claimed by Beatles' publicist Tony Barrow—began a five-week tour. —

Steve Dougherty, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2020 But ticket sales are already proving the extra coinage was worth it. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Mar. 2023 See More

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