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legal tender

legal tender noun: any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.

Noun

legal tender (countable and uncountable, plural legal tenders)

  1. Any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.

legal tender meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese

legal tender in Tamil

சட்டச் செலாவணம், சட்டமுறைச் செலவாணிப் பணம், சட்டமுறைச் செலாவணிப் பணம், சட்டமுறைப் பேறு

legal tender in Urdu

سکہ رائج الوقت

legal tender in Vietnamese

currency that cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt
đấu thầu hợp pháp

Forms of legal tender

plurallegal tenders

Questions about legal tender

What does legal tender mean?
Legal tender means any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.
What is legal tender in Tamil?
Legal tender in Tamil is சட்டச் செலாவணம், சட்டமுறைச் செலவாணிப் பணம், சட்டமுறைச் செலாவணிப் பணம். See Legal tender meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is legal tender?
Legal tender is a noun.
What is the plural of legal tender?
The plural of legal tender is legal tenders.

Words near legal tender in the dictionary

  1. legal sex
  2. legal sexes
  3. legal studies
  4. legal system
  5. legal systems
  6. legal tender
  7. legal tenders
  8. legal theories
  9. legal theory
  10. legal vacua
  11. legal vacuum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legal tender (page history and authors); legal tender (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); legal tender (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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