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coin·age \ˈkȯinij, -ēj\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French coignaige, from coin, coing + -age 1. a. : the act or process of coining (as money) : the manufacture of coins b. : the official stamping of tin blocks of standard weight c. : the fabricating or inventing especially of new words < a word of recent coinage > 2. : something that has been coined: as a. : coins b. : a quantity of coins produced at one time from a particular metal or by a particular mint : a series of coins minted under a particular ruler, government, or dynasty or in a particular country or city < the Jubilee coinage of 1887 > c. : something that is made up or invented < this is the very coinage of your brain — Shakespeare > specifically : a coined word < chortle is a coinage of Lewis Carroll's > d. : something that passes current (as in the language of a group) or is of recognized worth < the term has become common coinage > |