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legal tender

noun

currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.

legal tender

currency in specified denominations that a creditor must by law accept in redemption of a debt

legal tender

Any form of money that a government decrees must be accepted in payment of debts .

First recorded in 1730–40

If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?

It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.

I don't suppose our greenbacks would be a legal tender with them.

This would involve, of course, the possible inflation of legal tender currency to the amount of outstanding bonds.

This quality of being a legal tender was the only respect in which these notes differ from those signed by an individual.

Clothed with sovereignty, it had, or at least exercised, the power to make its notes a legal tender.

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