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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From {Coin}, v. t., cf {Cuinage}.] 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.'' --Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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