COINAGE

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

2.
n.

Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

3.
n.

The cost or expense of coining money.

4.
n.

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.


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