coin·age /ˈkɔɪnɪʤ/
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Coin·age n.
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.”
This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak.
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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]