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coined

[koind]

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adjective

(of a word, expression, etc.) invented or made up.
A coined word, such as Xerox, is one of the most easily protected categories of trademark.
relating to or being money made by stamping metal; minted.
Our government founders were determined that the coined value of our gold and silver money should correspond with the market value of the bullion contained.
(of metal) made into coinage by stamping.
The floor of the vault was buried in coined gold and silver that had burst from the sacks it was originally stored in.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of coin.

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Other Word Forms

uncoined adjective
well-coined adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of coined¹

coin ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Some credit poor farmers using a clever substitute for meat while others think English pubs coined the name as a joke, mocking the Welsh for not affording real rabbit.

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In fact its use appears to have skyrocketed in the past quarter-century, though it was coined in the journal Nature in 1964.

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Paula Pant, writer and founder of the financial media company Afford Anything, coined the term “anti-budget” in 2013 when she offered a 80/20 money management plan she called “the easiest budget ever.”

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The term “harm reduction” was first coined in 1980s Liverpool, England, to describe the needle exchanges there, which themselves were based on a Dutch program.

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In 2008, The Word magazine coined the phrase "indie landfill" to describe a seemingly endless parade of identikit bloke-bands cluttering the airwaves.

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