recoined

Minted once more

Recoined is the past tense of recoin, meaning to coin again or anew.

Money may be recoined when currency is redesigned or devalued.

More often, recoined describes words or phrases given fresh meaning or brought back into circulation: The term was recoined by activists in the 1990s.

A recoined expression carries echoes of its earlier life.

minting

struck

Past tense of hitting

minted · engraved · impressed · die · planchet · numismatic · commemorative · reissued · circulation · denomination

linguistic

neologism

Newly created expression

reinvented · terminology · lexicon · portmanteau · rebranded · renamed · relabeled · vocabulary · vernacular · slang

revived

resurrected

Restored to life

reclaimed · rediscovered · reinstituted · reestablished · revitalized · updated · modernized · recycled · reimagined · repopularized

Opposites
originality of production

recoinedvirgin

One sexually inexperienced

pristine

currency state

recoineddemonetized

Had income removed

melted down · withdrawn · decommissioned · retired · destroyed

linguistic novelty

recoinedobsoleted

Made no longer current

archaic · abandoned · forgotten · deprecated

Family

recoinage, recoin

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