Crossword clues for coinage
coinage
- Invented word
- Neologism
- Lexicographer's interest
- Just-made-up word
- Introduction to English?
- A newly invented word or phrase
- The act of inventing a word or phrase
- Coins collectively
- Minting of money
- Currency; new word
- A newly invented word, eg acoge?
- Pen round old popular invention
- Devising a new word for brass or tin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
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The act or process of converting metal into money.
The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates.
--Arbuthnot. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
The cost or expense of coining money.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or process of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c.1600).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of coining money. 2 (context uncountable English) coins taken collectively; currency. 3 (context uncountable English) The creation of new words, neologizing. 4 (context countable English) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
WordNet
Wikipedia
COINage, a monthly American special-interest magazine, targets numismatists and coin investors. Behn-Miller Publications, Inc. - under the joint ownership of Gordon Behn and COINage editorial director James L. Miller - originally published the magazine on a quarterly basis. In 1965 the magazine moved to a bimonthly publishing schedule, and has been published monthly since 1966. Behn retired in 1982, making Miller the sole publisher of COINage, as well as sole owner of the renamed Miller Magazines, Inc. Trimbach Media, Inc. purchased COINage, in 2012.
Usage examples of "coinage".
Middle Ages a measure of stability had been achieved between the coinages of Christendom and the Islamic world, one producing silver, the other gold.
For ten years the question of a choice between a single standard or bimetallism, between free coinage or limited coinage of silver, was one of the principal economic problems of the world.
The produce, I was told, was equal to fifty bushels to the acre, but the reckoning was in centals, and indeed decimal coinage and decimal weights and measures had been adopted so long ago that most people had forgotten our old standard.
The citizens hated him, not for his favouring the reformers, but for the injury he had caused to trade and for his having bebased the coinage still further than it had been debased by Henry VIII.
He had no sympathies with any measures that would debase or unsettle the currency, and set his face and gave his powerful influence against all forms of fiat or irredeemable paper money, and the kindred folly of the free coinage of silver by this country alone, without the concurrence of the commercial nations of the world.
He passes counterfeit coinage in characteristic lexical sleight of hand smoothed by alliteration.
The specific demands included state regulation of railroads, free coinage of silver, reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis, revision of the patent laws, high taxation of oleomargarine, and reduction of the legal rate of interest from 10 to 8 per cent.
He found Plagal coinage confusing, another example of the chaos of Porto Vielle, he thought.
Copernicus advocated a universal coinage, to be adopted by all civilized nations, and the amount of alloy should be known and plainly stated, and this alloy should simply be the seigniorage, or what was taken out to cover the cost of mintage.
It is only a literary fop or doctrinaire who will attempt to remint all the small defaced coinage that passes through his hands, only a lisping young fantastico who will refuse all conventional garments and all conventional speech.
After the conquest of Alexander, his generals issued coinage under his name in their satrapal authority.
At the same time the stringency in the money market and the low prices following the panic of 1873 added weight to the arguments of those who favored an increase in the quantity of currency in circulation and who saw in the free and unlimited coinage of silver one means of accomplishing this end.
Their meeting had ended on a most uncordial note when the baron had offered her coinage for her services.
The reliquary caskets contained a variety of silver and gold, either in coinage or as unminted raw metal.
This was the only coinage acceptable to the Abyssinians in their mountainous kingdom and his other more sophisticated trading partners, such as the Mutesa in Buganda, the Hadendowa and the Saar of the eastern deserts.