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Coinage
Pronunciation : Coin"age
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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