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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024coin /kɔɪn/USA pronunciation n. - a piece of metal stamped and issued by a government as money:[countable]How many coins do you have in your pocket?
- a number of such pieces:[uncountable]She paid him in coin.
- Informal Terms Informal. money;
cash:[uncountable]You have any coin, man?
adj. [before a noun] - operated by the insertion of a coin or coins:[sometimes: ~-operated]a coin-operated laundry.
v. [~ + object] - to make (coins) by stamping metal:They coined nickels and dimes at the mint.
- to invent;
fabricate:to coin an expression.
Idioms- Idioms pay someone back in his or her own coin, to strike back against someone by using the person's own methods.
coin•a•ble, adj. coin•er, n. [countable]a coiner of new words. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024coin (koin),USA pronunciation n. - a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- a number of such pieces.
- Informal Termsmoney;
cash:He's got plenty of coin in the bank. - Architecturequoin (defs. 1, 2).
- Furniture[Archaic.]a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
- Idioms pay someone back in his or her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, esp. inamicably;
retaliate:If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin. - Idioms the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view;
alternative consideration.
adj. - operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot:a coin laundry.
v.t. - to make (coinage) by stamping metal:The mint is coining pennies.
- to convert (metal) into coinage:The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
- to make;
invent;
fabricate:to coin an expression. - Metallurgyto shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Cf. emboss (def. 3).
v.i. - British Termsto counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money.
- coin money, [Informal.]to make or gain money rapidly:Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
- Latin cuneus wedge
- Anglo-French; Middle French coin, cuigne wedge, corner, die
- Middle English coyn(e), coygne 1300–50
- counterinsurgency.
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