(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.
Trite
Definition:
(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(2) "That might sound trite, but it does feel that way.
(3) Giles Oakley London • In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
(4) It sounds trite now, but I was born in '58, so when I was seven or eight the city [of Liverpool] was awash with music.
(5) Inside that trite sentence, “We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,” hides the skeleton of a monster.
(6) The three-day Baltimore retreat exposed discord within the ranks, but largely the same leadership espoused trite slogans that long predated Trump.
(7) Although it might seem trite to point out that tissue sampling is a potential source of experimental error, this survey disclosed that even experienced investigators in fact often work with cartilage that is contaminated by non-cartilaginous tissue of which they were unaware.
(8) I should, by rights, have produced a 300-word listicle containing trite, observational humour about self-service checkouts, but disappointingly, Buzzfeed got there first .
(9) A case in point is The Black Eyed Peas song Where Is The Love?, which when heard on the radio can seem a bit trite in its appeal for pan-global understanding, but in this context chimed perfectly with the need for clear, emphatic statements following trauma.
(10) The guest list pass from the 3rdeyegirl gig is still stuck fast to the inside of my jacket To say Prince was a rare figure, even in the glorified secure unit that is pop, is a little trite.
(11) Over the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't go wrong going to the right.
(12) These relations are in reality, not just as a trite phrase, a potential "win-win situation".
(13) I also wanted to slightly complicate rather than clarify the Nick situation because it’s so easy to come up with trite answers – that he came from a stuffy, upper-middle-class background, nobody understood him.
(14) To say it is a victory for hope may sound trite and cliched, but it is really the only explanation for what has occurred.
(15) In the case of Podemos, repeatedly attacking la casta (the elites) may seem simple or trite on paper, as some have argued, but expressing your disavowal in the context of Spain’s domination by a corrupt, unreformable “regime of 78” (the year of the post-Franco constitution) which is in thrall to the troika and their friends in the bailed-out banks, as well as 40 years of Francoist patriarchy before that, becomes potentially transcendent.
(16) "It is just not good enough to give a trite phrase saying we will learn lessons if you don't learn the lessons and if you don't make sure on a regular basis that the lessons have filtered down to your officers.
(17) He told the BBC: "I wasn't having a go at multiculturalism itself, I was having a go at the rather trite way, frankly, it was represented in the opening ceremony.
(18) For whose benefit are those early Sunday morning photos of piles of finished marking accompanied by a trite, self-congratulatory message?
(19) I have read it three times to satisfy myself that there is nothing trivial, trite or ridiculous about it.
(20) Inside that trite sentence, 'We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,' hides the skeleton of a monster I disagree that the old way is better.