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coinage

/koi-nij/US // ˈkɔɪ nɪdʒ //UK // (ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ) //

硬币,钱币,币种,币值

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act, process, or right of making coins.
    • : the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.
    • : coins collectively; currency.
    • : the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.
    • : an invented or newly created word or phrase: “Ecdysiast” is a coinage of H. L. Mencken.
    • : anything made, invented, or fabricated.

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Examples

  • Magarian thinks the term is still useful, but at the time of its coinage, most of the new players were Americans.

  • In all seriousness, however, this term became one of the most successful coinages of modern times.

  • The digital crowd’s vocabulary brims with whimsical coinages, many of which have migrated to the broader national conversation.

  • Here’s me developing the entire society and its economics and what coinage it’s using and numismatics.

  • Now, more than a decade later, the coinage is gaining new, legal, heft.

  • Early on, I took to calling this doctrine belief in the “confidence fairy,” a coinage that seems to have stuck.

  • Remember his coinage “Obamneycare,” which he used in debates starting last June?

  • “Encounters” is the publisher's cool coinage for occasional pieces, complains Nancy Campbell in the TLS.

  • But I feel that were I to accept the award, it would ultimately debase the coinage of the medal.

  • The present bronze coinage came into use December 1st, 1860, and Messrs. Heaton have had several contracts therefor since then.

  • The last-named engine was intended for the coinage operations in the Mint at Lima.

  • This was done quite openly and the coinage was restored at the earliest opportunity.

  • If he had stayed away people might have thought that he was reading blue-books, or calculating coinage, or preparing a speech.

  • The Swiss army, postal system and finances were put under federal control and a national coinage was established.