coinage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of inventing a word or phrase

   The reform changed the weight of the coinage.

2. 2
   noun

   a newly invented word or phrase

   The reform changed the weight of the coinage.

3. 3
   noun

   coins collectively

   The reform changed the weight of the coinage.

Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.

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