Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To coin again: as, to
recoin gold or silver.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To coin anew or again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
coin (money, an expression) again.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1885, well before the arrival of the new minting machinery, Abd al-Rahman's appetite for silver to recoin led to seizures of such a magnitude that the British Agent in Qandahar commented: "If this state of things (the confiscations) continues no money will be left with anybody in the whole of Afghanistan, and Government coffers will overflow with money."
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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Elle cherche partout, dans les armoires, sous les lits, dans le moindre recoin!!
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On s'abritte sous un recoin de garage pourri et on attends. la petite rue ou nous sommes commence a etre innondé, l'eau est meme assez boueuse et avance vite ...
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MR. SPERLING: To somewhat recoin an old phrase, you'll see surpluses as far as the eye can see.
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Thus does Milton appropriate the wealth of past literature, secure of being able to recoin it with his own image and superscription.
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The learned men are all the time trying to recoin them and give them at least partial reality.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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Thus does Milton appropriate the wealth of past literature, secure of being able to recoin it with his own image and superscription.
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The coin belongs to the king whose head and titles are displayed upon it; and on your heart, friend, though a usurper has tried to recoin the piece, and put his own foul image on the top of the original one, is stamped deep that you belong to the King of kings, to God Himself.
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Indeed I wish with you that people would speak their minds more sincerely than it is the custom to do; and recoin some of the every day compliments into a simpler form: but this is voted a stale subject, I believe.
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It was resolved, therefore, in 1695, to call in all light money and recoin it.
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