coinage
- noun
- /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
- One of the, the recent coinages out of the the university is this phrase justice involved person.
- a new coinage
One of the, the recent coinages out of the the university is this phrase justice involved person.
- One of the, the recent coinages out of the the university is this phrase justice involved person.
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A new term is entering the coinage of politically correct speech: "responsible speech."
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But scholars know there are no rules governing the coinage of words.
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Indeed, there are other variants of this coinage referred to as Popular Theatre.
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Many of the Mancebo's coinages occur nowhere else in Aljamiado literature.
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In actuality, "postmodernism" resembles many other terms in literary studies in having arisen as a theological coinage; it came into usage as early as the 1920s in America.
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"Typology" itself is, after all, a 19th-century coinage, and the allegory-typology distinction reflects the agenda of modern patristic scholars rather than the mind of patristic authors.
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The author's creative coinage of the term "hangry" has become popular in everyday conversations.
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In linguistic studies, coinage often refers to the creation of new words to describe emerging concepts.
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The coinage of the phrase "freemium model" has changed how we think about digital products.
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Etymology
Coinage for a new word comes from the simple image of coin, which meant to 'stamp' metal into a piece of money; by a helpful image, to 'coin' a word is to stamp a new name into the language. So a coinage is a newly invented word or phrase that someone has made and put into use.