as in cash
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
coins and bills are considered legal tender, but postage stamps are not
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Recent Examples of legal tender
Singapore’s Monetary Authority stopped issuing one-cent coins from April 2002, though existing one-cent coins remain legal tender.
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Chad De Guzman, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Since adopting bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador has charted a new course.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The Central American country adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.
—Alex Recouso, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The legal tender angle is utterly immaterial.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Chad De Guzman, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Since adopting bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador has charted a new course.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The Central American country adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.
—Alex Recouso, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The legal tender angle is utterly immaterial.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legal tender
Noun
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will continue to tick up.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The agency does more than just give out money: FEMA deploys experts in disaster response and recovery and maintains stockpiles of emergency equipment.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
2 May 2025
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Customers, who had access to more than 20 crypto coins at the time, were either shunted to Blockchain.com or liquidated their holdings.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
29 Apr. 2025
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The coin imploded a month later, erasing billions of dollars in wealth.—
Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Legal tender.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legal%20tender. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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