What's the difference between coiner and recoin?

Coiner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
  • (n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was signed off: (Mrs) Margaret Cockcroft aged 96 A childhood word coined in the 1930s and remembered in old age in 2015: a word that summoned back to its coiner – and to me – a moment in time and place.
  • (2) Towards the end of his life, hailed as coiner of phrases such as the "information economy" and "post-industrialism", Bell continued to lay claim on an eroded 1950s-style political liberalism staggering under blows from the Republican right.

Recoin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To coin anew or again.

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