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☆ fiat money

currency made legal tender by fiat and neither backed by, nor necessarily convertible into, gold or silver

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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