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The act or process of converting metal into money.

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  1. v. t. The act or process of converting metal into money.
  2. v. t. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
  3. v. t. The cost or expense of coining money.
  4. v. t. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
  5. n. coins collectively
  6. n. a word/newly">newly word/invented">invented word or phrase
  7. n. the act of word/inventing">inventing a word or phrase
  8. 1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.
  9. n:100 n. coins collectively