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new-coin

new-coin verb: to coin afresh.

Verb

new-coin (third-person singular simple present new-coins, present participle new-coining, simple past and past participle new-coined)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To coin afresh.
    • Item, I Article, that you continue to like your own Face, as long as I ſhall. And while it paſſes Current with me, that you endeavour not to new Coin it.1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, page 58
    • Resolved, That the best way to prevent clipping the silver coin of this kingdom for the future is, to new-coin the same into milled money.1969, Horace Maybray King, Before Hansard: A Quaint Collection of Curious Details from the Story of the Mother of Parliaments, page 47

Forms of new-coin

third-person singular presentnew-coins
present participlenew-coining
past participlenew-coined
pastnew-coined
alternative formnewcoin
alternative formnew coin

Origin of new-coin

From new- + coin.

Words formed from new-coin

Questions about new-coin

What does new-coin mean?
New-coin means to coin afresh.
What part of speech is new-coin?
New-coin is a verb.
What is the past tense of new-coin?
The past tense of new-coin is new-coined.

Words near new-coin in the dictionary

  1. new-agey
  2. new-born
  3. new-build
  4. new-builds
  5. new-car smell
  6. new-coin
  7. new-coined
  8. new-coining
  9. new-coins
  10. new-comer
  11. new-comers

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