| 单词 | lawful tender |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslawful tender 4. (esp. legal tender, lawful tender, or common tender.) Money or other things that may be legally tendered or offered in payment; currency prescribed by law as that in which payment may be made.In the United Kingdom, Bank of England notes are legal tender up to any amount throughout the country; fifty-pence coins are legal tender for sums not exceeding £10; other current cupro-nickel coins for sums not exceeding £5; and current bronze coins for sums not exceeding twenty pence (1988). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > kind of money > current or legal lawful1533 going1591 pass-gilt1657 real money1675 legal tender?1730 legal tender1740 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 20 France never made their State Bills a common Tender. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) i. 27 Indian corn..was made a tender in discharge of all debt. 1777 Jrnls. Amer. Congress 14 June Recommended..to pass laws to make the bills of credit, issued by the Congress, a lawful tender, in payments of public and private debts. 1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxvii. 73 Land and cattle became legal tender at a certain fixed rate of value. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iv. 95 A cheque is not a legal tender, and for that reason may be objected to. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxii. 369 In Urga, brick tea and silver are the common tenders. < as lemmas |
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