tenderable

[ ten-der-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being tendered tender or offered in payment, as money or goods.

Other Words From

• tender·a·bili·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tenderable¹

First recorded in 1880–85; tender ² + -able

Example Sentences

The nobles were at once made current and tenderable along with silver, by proclamation; gold being ordered to be received in payment of 20s. and upwards.

From Project Gutenberg

In the original plan, as drafted soon after the conclusion of peace, the new gold coinage proposed was intended not to be tenderable, for the meantime, in private commerce.

From Project Gutenberg

In one direction this treatment resulted in the evolution of a theory and practice of a monometallic system—one, i.e., in which a single metal was made the legal tender, and a second or third metal bound to it in a hard-and-fast, subordinate relationship, so that they could not by their oscillations injuriously affect the tenderable metal.

From Project Gutenberg

Thaler to be subdivided into 30 groschens 12 pfennige; the latter tenderable only up to 1⁄6 thaler.

From Project Gutenberg

It was ordered that in payments up to 400 livres not more than 10 livres should be tenderable in billon, and for payments of more than 400 livres not more than 1⁄40 of the total.

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