coined

American  

[koind] / kɔɪnd /

adjective

1. (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.

2. 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.

3. (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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of coin.

Other Word Forms

• uncoined adjective
• well-coined adjective

Etymology

Origin of coined

coin ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“These are the companies that you cannot type something in a prompt and disrupt,” said Josh Brown, chief executive at Ritholtz Wealth Management, who coined the term “HALO” earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Manifest Destiny gets coined as a term, and you had this nationalist, expansionist mindset.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers analyzed scans from more than 4,200 people from infancy to 90 years old and found several key periods of development including one from age nine to 32, which they coined the “adolescent” period.

From Science Daily

This sounds like a financial version of “FOG,” an acronym coined by author and psychologist Dr. Susan Forward — “fear, obligation and guilt.”

From MarketWatch

Jukeboxes were central to the swing-music youth culture of the 1930s, a period when the term “teenager” was coined.

From The Wall Street Journal