单词 | recoining |
释义 | recoiningn. The action or process of coining (money) again; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1694 W. Chaloner Proposals Offered Act to Prevent Clipping of Mony 1 This Recoyning being done..to stop the Currant of Clipping and false Coyning, which is now so much Practised. 1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 85 It will inforce the recoining of all our Money, both old and new. 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 32 In France their recoinings..did rise the Price of Goods. 1856 H. D. Macleod Theory & Pract. Banking II. 37 The difficulties which had arisen from the re-coining of the money. 1860 T. Lewis Divine Human in Script. iii. 34 God thus employs old truths..as the instruments of a new revelation. This recoining is not by way of poetical hyperbole. 1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. 1 e Each coin is inspected by hand, and rejects are melted down for recoining. 2000 Jrnl. World Hist. (Nexis) 22 Sept. On the import of most coins in western India (counting in the cost of recoining and freight) one suffered a loss. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1694 |
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