legal tender

Example Sentences

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Pennies will remain legal tender, so they can still be used or exchanged for other cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Suddenly I realized — a shock to the system! — you needed legal tender in order to live.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

Cash is legal tender in the UK, but businesses are not obliged to serve people who only want to pay with notes and coins.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025

Bitcoiners have come to love the currency’s adoption as legal tender in other countries, and the value of the central coin has become just as responsive to broader macroeconomic conditions as anything else.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

At one time he had and used as legal tender at least forty-five tops of various sizes and colors, from the thick clumsy baby tops to the lean and dangerous splitters with their needle points.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck