📚 Coin, verb. 🔉 /kɔɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Invent (a new word or phrase) ❗️ Examples: 1. He coined the term ‘desktop publishing’ 2. Known for his penchant for coining apt words and phrases, Tukey is credited with inventing the word bit (binary digit) in 1946, and he was responsible for the first use of several terms in mathematical statistics. 3. I'd like to recommend The Word Spy, a fascinating website that collects recently coined words and phrases from the media. 4. Visionary and inventor Buckminster Fuller coined the phrase ‘Think global, act local’. 5. A new word was coined to describe such individuals: ‘cybersquatters.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic