(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.
Sterling
Definition:
(n.) Same as Starling, 3.
(n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
(n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.
(a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
(a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) But if they spurn it, Scotland can continue using sterling anyway.
(4) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(5) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
(6) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(7) Sterling was left out of the team for that match, coming off the bench to win the free-kick from which Wayne Rooney scored the only goal, which led to accusations he had said he did not want to play.
(8) Analysts at Goldman Sachs are warning that sterling could fall by up to 20% if Britain votes to leave the European Union .
(9) It’s the young Brazilian’s last heavy touch of the evening: he’s hooked for Sterling.
(10) Manchester City frustrated by Everton and Sterling’s late penalty claim Read more More than anyone, Giroud took the game to Liverpool.
(11) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(12) 4.11pm BST 53 mins: A symbol of the way things are going for Liverpool: they finally do play a good pass, from Johnson between Newcastle's full-back and centre-half, and Sterling reacts too slowly to fully take advantage of it.
(13) My sense is that a stronger mandate and more time would allow a more patient approach and a softer Brexit, probably more in line with May’s instincts.” The FTSE 100 index Deutsche Bank declared that the general election was a “game changer” for the pound, forcing it to tear up its sterling forecasts.
(14) Sterling has faced previous accusations of racism related to the Clippers and his property empire.
(15) Hodgson, who has been giving strong consideration to calling up Chris Smalling, has debated his selection at length with Pearce and agreed that it would be better for Zaha, Sterling and Shelvey to get tournament experience rather than being involved in the trip to Rio.
(16) Whether Sterling boards the flight to Bangkok remains to be seen.
(17) While their defending still leaves much to be desired, particularly from set-pieces, their football under Rodgers has been refreshingly electric, with Luis Suarez, Coutinho, Jordan Henderson and Raheem Sterling in wonderful form.
(18) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(19) We have played against Sterling before and we know how good he is as an individual .
(20) He tries to slide a pass through to Sterling but it's cut out, only for Coutinho to pick up the pieces on the left.