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coin | American Dictionary

coin
noun[ C ]
us/kɔɪn/

coinnoun[C] (MONEY)

a small, flat, round piece of metal used as money, with a number showing its value and often a decorative picture:
Let’s flip a coin to see who goes first.
He fished about in his pockets, taking out a handful of coins.
coin
verb[ T ]
us/kɔɪn/

coinverb[T] (INVENT)

to invent or be the first to use a new word or expression:
Kraft coined the term "middle America" in the 1960s.

coin | Business English

coin
noun
 MONEYuk /kɔɪn/us
[ C ]
a small round piece of metal, usually silver or a red-brown colour, which is used as money:
a 10p/ten-cent/pound coin
I always keep a few coins in the car to pay for parking.
in coinsHe gave me $10, all in coins.
[ U ]
money in the form of metal coins:
in coinThieves stole nearly €300 in coin.
coin
verb[ T ]
uk /kɔɪn/us
MONEY
to produce money in the form of coins:
A new 50 pence piece was coined to commemorate the poet's bicentennial.
 coin it (in)
UKinformal
to earn a lot of money quickly:
With prices so high, the major oil companies are coining it as never before.
The banks coined it in last year.

Examples of coin

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Overall, therefore, the present experiments add further substance to the claim that people misremember head orientation on coins.
In support of this idea, they cite the results of an experiment in which they asked subjects to create new coins.
Islands are in many ways special: so much so that ecologists have coined the expression" island biogeography" to describe their particular features.
He coined the term" developmental mechanics" and was one of the first to attempt a causal analysis of early development.
What did the word 'militarism' signify when it was first coined?
All of these characteristics lead to constant renewal as forms are continually replaced with newly coined expressions that can effectively intensify existing expressions.
I have coined these hybrid terms simply to echo multiplication where a multiplier operates on a multiplicand.
They are all either made out of run-of-the-mill material or depend upon currently fashionable devices for coining new expressions.
Thus, discovering such causes is more like discovering useful new ways of classifying than it is like discovering lost coins.
Their conflicting interests resulted in a dual coinage with the official sums stated in pure coins and the actual payments made in current coins.
The official sums were stated in pure coins, but this did not necessarily mean that actual payments were to be made in pure coins.
Each of these coins commands a premium of 0.001 to 0.005 tael, depending on the market price for silver.
How to recognize: most coins have a border with numerous letters, though there are some with large letters or a rough edge.
When coins were used as a means of transaction, the need to mint them would not occur unless their supply dried up completely.
In actuality, inferior coins circulated within a limited locality sustained the local monetary market.
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Collocations withcoin

coin

These are words often used in combination with coin.

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bronze coin
The salt voucher system thus provided a means whereby merchants supplying frontier armies in the northwest ultimately received reimbursement in bronzecoin.
bullion coin
I concede that it is not a circulating coin and with a face value of £1 it is really a bullioncoin.
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