Legal tender

    法定货币

    印度废止面值500卢比和1000卢比的两种大钞，以打击腐败和黑钱交易。印度财长周六说提款机全调好还要两周时间。请看本报昨日的报道：

    India's cash machines will take several weeks to reset with new bills, India's finance minister said Saturday, as public anger mounted over a decision to pull the highest denomination notes from circulation.

    People queued outside banks for the third day straight, trying to replace 500 (US$7.50) and 1,000 rupee notes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced they would no longer be legal tender in a blitz against corruption and tax evasion.

    Scores of India's ATMs were shut Friday and the ones that worked quickly ran dry as hundreds of thousands thronged to them.

    报道中的legal tender是固定说法，就是“法定货币”的意思，就是法律规定可以流通的货币。例如：

    Checks and money orders are not legal tender.

    支票和汇票不是法定货币。