Legal tender Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that can be used as an official medium of payment
    tender; stamp.

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  1. . (a) The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescribes or permits . (b) That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive. It differs in different countries.

Webster 1913