coinage n
1. coins collectively [syn: mintage, specie, metal money]
2. a newly invented word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology]
3. the act of inventing a word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology]

Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. --Arbuthnot.
2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3. The cost or expense of coining money.
4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. ``Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.'' --Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak.

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