Noun: seigniorage seyn-yu-rij
- Profit made by a government from issuing currency
"The mint's seigniorage helped fund government operations";
- seignorage
- (historical) a charge levied by a sovereign for coining metals into money
"Medieval mints collected seigniorage on all gold brought for coining"
Derived forms: seigniorages
Type of: fee
Encyclopedia: Seigniorage