Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of reverting; subject to reversion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
reverted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs
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Examples
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The alert warned about a kind of complex security sold under a variety of proprietary names, including "reverse convertible securities" and "revertible notes."
Don't Count On The Government To Save You From The Sharks 2010
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It's not such a bad idea to sterilize everyone with a revertible method until they are ready to be parents and keen enough to have a marriage, a job and a home to support their offspring.
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Dupont-Derval, making it revertible to her daughter, though she was sufficiently wealthy not to need it, and the other Madame Dupont-Derval was in actual need.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Consequently he assigned to Angelo an income revertible after his death to Madam Solimann.
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All lands so confiscated are by this decree revertible to their original holders upon their taking oath of allegiance to
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon -- The natural and very earnest wish of Moses to be allowed to cross the Jordan was founded on the idea that the divine threatening might be conditional and revertible.
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Polignac family, most of them revertible from one member to another, and nearly 2,000,000 of annual benefits to the Noailles family.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Dupont-Derval, making it revertible to her daughter, though she was sufficiently wealthy not to need it, and the other Madame Dupont-Derval was in actual need.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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Earlier this year these securities -- sometimes referred to as "revertible notes" -- were touting coupon rates of 10% or more.
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By leveraging revertible hot spare and predictive failure event notifications to automatically initiate a rebuild to a spare, data is preserved on an SSD whose health or performance falls below par.
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