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Noun: coinage  koy-nij
  1. Coins collectively
    "The merchant insisted on payment in coinage rather than paper money";
    - mintage, specie, metal money
     
  2. A newly invented word or phrase
    "The tech industry is known for creating coinages";
    - neologism, neology
     
  3. The act of inventing a word or phrase
    "The author's coinage 'cyberspace' quickly entered common usage";
    - neologism, neology

Derived forms: coinages

Type of: currency, invention, word

Encyclopedia: Coinage