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单词 coinage
释义 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 >
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