coinage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun coins collectively
    metal money; specie; mintage.
  2. noun a newly invented word or phrase
    neologism; neology.
  3. noun the act of inventing a word or phrase
    neologism; neology.

WordNet

Coin"age noun
Etymology
From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913