coin

Less common meanings

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   what you tradenounfigurativelycountable or uncountable

   Anything that works as payment, even if it is not money.

   Praise is the only coin some artists ever receive.

   He repaid her kindness in the same coin.

   UsagePay someone back in their own coin: treat them the same way.

   Similarcurrency, payment, recompense

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   earn fastverbtransitive

   To get or make something, especially money, very fast.

   Street vendors coin money during big festivals.

   A famous singer can coin money with just one hit song.

   UsageUsually used with money: the shop is coining money.

   Similarmake, earn, mint

   Oppositelose

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   round slicenouncountable or uncountable

   A small, round slice of food, like a piece of cut carrot.

   Cut the banana into coins for the cereal.

   She ate every carrot coin on her plate.

   UsageUsually plural, placed after the name of the food: carrot coins, cucumber coins.

   Similarround, slice, disk, medallion

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    common ideanounfigurativelyuncountable

    Something that many people use or share, like an idea or a saying.

    Funny cat videos are the coin of the internet.

    That rumor became common coin around school within a day.

    UsageOften in become common coin: the joke soon became common coin.

    Similarcurrency, circulation, parlance, usage, use

    Oppositedisuse

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    tarot suitnouncountable or uncountable

    One of the four groups of cards in a tarot deck, or a card from that group.

    Like the diamond cards in a regular deck of playing cards.

    Her first card was the king of coins.

    She drew the queen of Coins and smiled.

    Similarpentacle, disk

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    nounarchaiccountable or uncountable

    An outside corner of a wall or building.

    Similarquoin

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