- paper currency issued by the government or the central bank as legal tender and which circulates as a substitute for specie
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pa′per mon′ey,
- currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
- Middle English 1350–1400
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paper money n
'paper money' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bill
- folding money
- irredeemable
- redeem
- roll
- specie
- thread mark
- wallet
- baht
- billfold
- birr
- boliviano
- cabbage
- cedi
- clasp
- dalasi
- dinar
- dollar
- ekuele
- emission
- emit
- escudo
- false
- Federal Reserve note
- fractional currency
- gourde
- green stuff
- guarani
- hard
- inconvertible
- kip
- kwacha
- kwanza
- kyat
- legal tender
- lempira
- leone
- likuta
- lilangeni
- long green
- loti
- metalist
- Michigan bankroll
- money
- money tree
- murphy
- naira
- ngultrum
- numismatic
- numismatics