Sentence examples for coinage from inspiring English sources

The word "coinage" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a new word, phrase, or expression that has been created or invented, especially one which becomes popular. For example: "The term 'binge-watching' is a recent coinage, but has become widely used to describe watching multiple episodes of a television show in one sitting".

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coinage

noun

The process of coining money.

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Their conduct will appear to the future to be as economically irresponsible as the debasing of the Roman coinage.

A succession of post-colonial regimes has refused to recognise their claim to be identified as Rohingya – a term of relatively recent political coinage adopted by an astute leadership, mostly in exile.

Ironically, there's no similar limit on the amount of coinage.

Old and new currencies will circulate side by side for, at most, six months, during which time the entire note issue and coinage of the 11 member countries will have to be replaced.

In addition, the coinage was debased by the medieval practice of "clipping" of coins, or shaving off the edges to save the silver.

To see George W. Bush at the Republican convention call upon his party and class to welcome those different from themselves was exactlywhat Baltzell would have hoped for.CHRIS MARIOPrinceton, New JerseySIR Lexington attributes the invention of the acronym WASP to sociologist E. Digby Baltzell and dates the coinage back to 1964.

Price rises only stopped in about 1650 when the price of silver coinage in Europe fell to such a low level that it was no longer profitable to import it from the Americas.The rapid convergence of the silver market in early modern period is only one example of "globalisation", some historians argue.

Just as in ancient Greece after the opening of gold mines in Macedonia, a larger supply of the metals of coinage meant higher prices, first in Spain and then across Europe.Scholars have since questioned this explanation too, pointing out that the great inflation was under way well before bullion from the Americas began to arrive in large quantities.

A pet hate is "blockbuster", originally a 1942 coinage for city-destroying bombs.

The decimal system, which has already conquered the coinage and led to the metrification of measures of weight and distance, suits the modern world better.

Besides, the mint's revenues of C$137m in 2011 from Canadian coinage were tiny in comparison with the C$2.9 billion it pulled in from its largest business: marketing gold, silver, palladium and platinum bullion and selling exchange-traded receipts for gold.

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