Synonyms of legal tender

legal tender

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cash
• money
• coin
• currency
• bucks
• dough
• gold
• long green
• funds
• change
• chips
• tender
• sheqels
• sheqalim
• green
• shekalim
• coinage
• needful
• loot
• moolah
• cabbage
• dollar
• kale
• scratch
• money order
• wampum
• pelf
• promissory note
• bread
• lucre
• shekelim
• shekels
• lolly
• moola
• paper money
• folding money
• resources
• jack
• big bucks
• wallet
• dead presidents
• finances
• chump change
• specie
• bill
• capital
• petty cash
• pocket money
• spending money
• mad money
• pin money
• scrip
• draft
• means
• dime
• banknote
• mint
• peanuts
• greenback
• roll
• riches
• wealth
• earth
• king's ransom
• pittance
• abundance
• bankroll
• shoestring
• pot
• cashier's check
• pile
• treasure
• bundle
• check
• mite
• bomb
• opulence
• wad
• dibs
• note
• fortune
• megabucks
• wherewithal
• packet
• boodle

Examples of legal tender in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her attention to such matters of legal tender, from the unpaid debts of the Reverend Amos Barton to the financial fraud of Nicholas Bulstrode in Middlemarch, accounts for no small portion of the richness of her novels. —Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024

In 2021, El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender alongside the US dollar. —Michael Rios, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024

Bukele’s attention-grabbing, quixotic bid to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador has done little to address deeper problems. —Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024

This initiative is part of the Bitcoin BTC 0.0% strategy the government of Nayib Bukele has been following since declaring bitcoin legal tender in 2021. —Javier Bastardo, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023