coinage
英 ['k??n?d?]
美['k??n?d?]
- n. 造幣；[金融] 貨幣制度；新造的字及其語等
TEM4TOEFL暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?coinages;
英文詞源
- coinage (n.)
- late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or process of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c. 1600).
雙語例句
- 1. The city produced its own coinage from 1325 to 1864.
- 1325年到1864年間，這座城市曾鑄造過自己的硬幣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. On the outbreak of the First Revolutionary Civil War, the Government called in all gold coinage and replaced it by notes.
- 在第一次國內革命戰爭爆發的時候, 政府下令收回所有的金幣,并代之以紙幣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. It took four years for Britain just to decimalise its own coinage.
- 英國花了4年時間才將其幣制改為十進制。
來自辭典例句
- 4. These characteristics led to their being used for jewellery and eventually coinage.
- 這些特性使得它們能成為珍寶,最后用來作貨幣.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The silver coinage was repeatedly debased with copper vellon.
- 銀幣一再用銅幣維隆來替代,實行貶值.
來自辭典例句