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legal tender
noun
: money that the law allows people to use for paying debts
Full Definition of LEGAL TENDER
: money that is legally valid for the payment of debts and that must be accepted for that purpose when offered
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First Known Use of LEGAL TENDER
1739
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- bread [slang], bucks, cabbage [slang], cash, change, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack [slang], kale [slang], money, lolly [British], long green [slang], loot, lucre, moola (or moolah) [slang], needful, pelf, scratch [slang], shekels (also sheqels or shekelim or shekalim or sheqalim), tender, wampum
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