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View synonyms for legal tender
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
noun
- currency in specified denominations that a creditor must by law accept in redemption of a debt
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Word History and Origins
Origin of legal tender1
First recorded in 1730–40
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Example Sentences
If so, why do the rest of us have to put up with legal-tender paper money?
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It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.
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I don't suppose our greenbacks would be a legal tender with them.
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This would involve, of course, the possible inflation of legal tender currency to the amount of outstanding bonds.
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This quality of being a legal tender was the only respect in which these notes differ from those signed by an individual.
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Clothed with sovereignty, it had, or at least exercised, the power to make its notes a legal tender.
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