Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not redeemable for money in coin.
- adjective Not able to be legally exchanged for another currency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not convertible; incapable of being converted into or exchanged for something else: as, one metal is inconvertible into another; inconvertible bonds (bonds that cannot be exchanged for others of a different tenor).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
convertible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being changed into something else
- adjective used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value
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Examples
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"If, therefore, the issue of inconvertible paper were subjected to strict rules, one rule being that whenever bullion rose above the Mint price gold parity, the issues should he contracted until the market price of bullion and the Mint price were again in accordance, such a currency would not be subject to any of the evils usually deemed inherent in an inconvertible paper."
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But the inconvertible fact that nobody has mentioned yet is that there has been no terrorist attack in the United States, or for that matter, our embassies or other foreign interests around the world.
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Because whatever you might say about its graphics, the principles – the simple 14 words – are inconvertible.
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Large chunks of U.S. cash are held abroad, where they are sometimes used in large quantities for black market transactions and as stores of value in countries whose own currencies are inflationary or inconvertible.
Back to the Macro Text, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Instead, modern-day social scientists could simply watch the intense psychological discomfort of conservatives when one of their basic tenets (the New York Times is a bit to the left of Kim Il Jung) collides with an inconvertible fact (Times reporter Judy Miller is now completing her second week in the slammer for refusing to rat out her Bush administration sources in the Valerie Plame case).
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His life had taken an inconvertible turn, and wherever it would lead, it would lead them together.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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His life had taken an inconvertible turn, and wherever it would lead, it would lead them together.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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His life had taken an inconvertible turn, and wherever it would lead, it would lead them together.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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His life had taken an inconvertible turn, and wherever it would lead, it would lead them together.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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I believe that my friend is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions, and that there is another side to be heard; but so much wisdom seemed to lie under his statement, that it deserved a record.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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