coinage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: coin=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

coinage, n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.].

•  The act or process of converting metal into money.  [1913 Webster]

  "The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates."  [1913 Webster]
•  Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.  [1913 Webster]
•  The cost or expense of coining money.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

  "This is the very coinage of your brain."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

coinage, n.
1 the act or process of coining.
2 a coins collectively. b a system or type of coins in use (decimal coinage; bronze coinage).
3 an invention, esp. of a new word or phrase.

Etymology

ME f. OF coigniage

THESAURUS

coinage

and pence, artifact, authorship, beginning, brainchild, breakthrough, cash, child, circulating medium, coined liberty, coining, cold cash, composition, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, counterfeiting, creation, creative effort, creature, crowning achievement, currency, devising, discovery, distillation, dollars, effect, emergency money, end product, essence, extract, fabrication, filthy lucre, forgery, fractional currency, fruit, generation, ghost word, gold, handiwork, hard cash, hard currency, hatching, improvisation, innovation, introduction, invention, issue, leap, legal tender, lucre, making do, mammon, managed currency, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, medium of exchange, mintage, money, necessity money, neologism, neology, neoterism, new mintage, new phase, new sense, new word, newfangled expression, nonce word, novelty, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, product, production, result, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, stamping, sterling, striking, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, work

ROGET THESAURUS

coinage

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.