legal tender
Example Sentences
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Utah, a state with a long mining legacy, was the first to reaffirm gold and silver as legal tender in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
These categories imply that we find Everest to be covered in snow; we make today Thursday; and the bank decrees that this is legal tender.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
