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legal tender

money that may be legally offered in payment of an obligation and that a creditor must accept

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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