coinage

[US]/'kɒɪnɪdʒ/
[UK]/'kɔɪnɪdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. monetary system

Phrases & Collocations

coinage system

Example Sentences

the volume of coinage in circulation.

the coinage of new words

the coinage standard was reformed under Elizabeth I.

The silver coinage was repeatedly debased with copper vellon.

It is indicated that the coinage of the new words in EST conforms to certain cognitive regularities, especially to metaphorization.

The long-time existence of private coinage has its profound social and economic roots, the most important of which was the allurement of high profit.

On the outbreak of the First Revolutionary Civil War,the Government called in all gold coinage and replaced it by notes.

Real-world Examples

Well, there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me.

Source: BBC Listening Collection October 2014

Now, though, Apple will allow iOS developers to support the use of certain cyber coinage.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Collection July 2014

Her graceful ageing on our coinage has been delicately done.

Source: BBC Listening Compilation June 2016

" In God We Trust" is engraved on our coinage.

Source: Conservative speeches

" Why don't you change the basis of your coinage, then" ? she queried teasingly.

Source: Sea Wolf (Part Two)

As the Roman Empire flourished further south, Scandinavians had small settlements, no central government, and no coinage.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

This was a struggle fought out not just on the battlefield but on the coinage.

Source: BBC documentary "A Hundred Treasures Talk About the Changes of Time"

In 55 AD however Agrippina’s face was taken off the coinage.

Source: Character Profile

England was a social kingdom whose social coinage had no currency elsewhere.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Part Two)

Milton was responsible for an estimated 630 word coinages, including lovelorn, fragrance and pandemonium.

Source: Illustrated History of English (Part 2)

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