Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make into new coin by melting down and reprocessing.
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- verb transitive To
mint (create money) again or repeatedly.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His goal was to melt down all foreign coins he could find and remint them with the new machines as state currency, thereby producing more Afghan money and wealth from his perspective.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Under old monarchies it was the custom on the accession of a sovereign to call in the coins of his predecessor and remint them with the new king's effigy.
Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915
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It is only a literary fop or doctrinaire who will attempt to remint all the small defaced coinage that passes through his hands, only a lisping young fantastico who will refuse all conventional garments and all conventional speech.
Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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The moral is obvious, and as old as history; but herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Robert Matthews, the former Queen's Assay Master at the Royal Mint, the most senior coin tester in the country, said: "If the number of fakes keeps increasing at this rate, there will have to come a point when the Treasury makes the decision whether to remint or not."
Impact Lab 2010
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Royal Mint, the most senior coin tester in the country, said: 'If the number of fakes keeps increasing at this rate, there will have to come a point when the Treasury makes the decision whether to remint or not.'
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Robert Matthews, the former Queen's Assay Master at the Royal Mint, the most senior coin tester in the country, said: "If the number of fakes keeps increasing at this rate, there will have to come a point when the Treasury makes the decision whether to remint or not."
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Lucentes turbavit equos. procul arduus Atlas Horruit, et dubia coelum cervice remint.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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