(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.
Currency
Definition:
(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(2) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(3) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(4) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(5) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(6) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(7) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(8) Single-currency membership has no bearing on the foreign policy post.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(12) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(13) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(14) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(15) Spain was the worst hit of the currency bloc's major economies with a 0.8% drop in industrial production.
(16) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(17) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(18) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
(19) But persistent falls in the currency’s value during December towards the previous low point has increased the cost of imported goods and forced businesses to say that price rises are in the pipeline.
(20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?