(v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.
(v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
(v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.
(v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
(2) He became one of the seminal figures of the New Left Review in the 50s (alongside Ralph Miliband, whose rolling or otherwise in his political grave, let's leave aside); it is interesting to note that the memorable ideas from that publication, into the Thatcher years and beyond, were often Hall's coinage.
(3) In a year’s time, the new coin, which will incorporate emblems from all four of our home nations, will line millions of pockets and purses around the UK.” Adam Lawrence, Royal Mint chief executive, said modernising the coin was “helping to redefine the world of coinage for the future”.
(4) So Republicans should be thankful for a coinage by the conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, " hate couture ", which refers to the scandalous fact that people in the fashion industry tend to vote Democratic, and that Diane von Furstenberg made a joke at a recent event about how Republicans weren't allowed.
(5) Albrecht’s coinage is part of an emerging lexis for what we are increasingly calling the “Anthropocene”: the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long-term signature in the strata record.
(6) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
(7) In one of his better Commons coinages, Ed Miliband called Cameron the “Prime minister for Benson and Hedge funds”.
(8) The exhibition contains more than 100 treasures from the British Museum along with objects from Bristol's own collection: artefacts as varied as a sculpture of a barbarian captive from the emperor Trajan's villa; a marvellously preserved woollen sock from Egypt (with a handy gap between the two largest toes for inserting a sandal-thong); and a Roman coin bearing the emperor Claudius's head that was found in India – where it may have been traded as bullion, in the absence of a domestic coinage system.
(9) Burroughs was an underground press staple and a counter-cultural influence, not least in the coinage of group names such as the Insect Trust and Steely Dan .
(10) Many of these words are, clearly, ugly coinages for an ugly epoch.
(11) Taken together, this all constitutes a “wayfinding system” (another Lynchian coinage).
(12) As time went on and people grew tired of skewering their hands every time they reached into their pocket to settle a bill, the metal currency became round and flat – the origin of today’s coinage.
(13) JL: Funnily enough, my recollection is that "digital Maoism" was not my coinage.
(14) By the late 1980s, it led to the coinage of a rightwing term, “pseudo-secular”, to describe liberal pandering to minorities – meaning Muslims – for electoral gain, an accusation that included the suggestion of tolerance towards Muslim religiosity, but not Hindu expressions of faith, in the name of secularism.
(15) Doubtless his humour does not always travel well, but in the short period available to him, friendships, the gold coinage of diplomacy, have been struck, not just enmities.
(16) Our Athens correspondent, Helena Smith, reports that the man was immediately arrested after sending a barrage of coinage at the IMF mission chief's car as it arrived at the finance ministry this morning.
(17) Fortunately, new coinages and cultural changes refresh the linguistic and conceptual gene pool.
(18) It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical or fashionable art”.
(19) "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," said "one of the wise, practical people around the table".
(20) The silver coinage that had been the basis of the national economy for centuries was rapidly becoming unfit for purpose: it was constrained in supply and too easy to forge.
Creation
Definition:
(n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
(n.) That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
(n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) Susceptible rat strains develop hepatobiliary injury following the surgical creation of self-filling blind loops that cause small bowel bacterial overgrowth.
(4) The results suggest a molecular mechanism of fusion involving protein binding to negatively charged groups on the membrane surface, followed by local formation of lysophospholipids and as a consequence hereof the creation of point defects in the lipid structure.
(5) Based on morphological, virological, biochemical and molecular biological data, it is proposed that the presence of endogenous retrovirus particles in the placental cytotrophoblasts of many mammals is indicative of some beneficial action provided by the virus in relation to cell fusion, syncytiotrophoblast formation and the creation of the placenta.
(6) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(7) However, safe management of large duodenal defects may require the use of other methods, such as a serosal patch or creation of a duodenojejunostomy.
(8) A patient with malignant hypertension and acute renal failure underwent percutaneous renal biopsy which resulted in the creation of an arteriovenous fistula that communicated with the renal pelvis.
(9) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(10) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
(11) Autogenous jugular vein is favored for creation of the shunt.
(12) This percutaneous procedure consists of creation of an internal fistula between the 2 pelves by incision of the intervening tissue with an optical urethrotome.
(13) Born in a fashionable part of Manhattan on 1 January 1919, Salinger had a schooling that echoed his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield, with the writer asked to leave a New York prep school because of poor grades.
(14) One recent report spoke of the creation of a series of “city states” across much of the country .
(15) I believe in wealth creation and company profits, and for the government to play its part, and we have been working closely with business to shape that agenda.” Specifically, Miliband pointed out David Cameron, during his chairmanship of the G8 in 2013, had promised to make a crackdown on tax evasion one of his central goals.
(16) It's ironic given this sector is the one shining beacon of potential growth and job creation.
(17) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(18) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
(19) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(20) The traffic was 10% higher than for the site's previous busiest day in the UK, which came on 9 May when the media reported on the creation of an account on the site which purported to name those who had taken out superinjunctions to prevent details being reported.