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legal tender

NOUN
money backed by government
Synonyms
WEAK
circulating medium cold cash currency hard cash honest money medium of exchange money sound currency valid currency

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The Abu Dhabi fund and Binance strengthened the nascent stablecoin by using it as legal tender similar to hard currency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

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

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

In 2022, CAR became the world's second country after El Salvador to adopt the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 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

Instead of continuing the argument about how they would cop, they began to fantasize about what the gold could buy when it became legal tender.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison