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Meanings of inconvertible in English

Used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value.

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      Not capable of being changed into something else.

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            Usage of inconvertible in English
            1
            This means that every Protestant king should massacre all his inconvertible Catholic subjects!
            John Knox and the Reformation
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            But the directors of the Bank withstood the temptation; they did not issue their inconvertible notes extravagantly.
            Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
            3
            They abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.
            Essays — First Series
            4
            Evils of an inconvertible paper currency
            Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Refer...
            5
            Contrariwise the health lobby's objective is to reduce it in the light of inconvertible evidence that consumption levels relate positively to damages.
            The Irish Times
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            An inconvertible paper currency, stimulating industry and improving morals by converting beneficent commerce into baleful gambling-thatfatal invention did not then exist.
            History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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            And in consequence, after nearly ten years of painful experience, they do not now understand how much they have suffered from their inconvertible currency.
            The English Constitution
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            Sooner or later, and probably in all cases before 1917, all the belligerents will be forced to adopt inconvertible paper money for their internal uses.
            What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
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            Inconvertible, they must go to a discount with gold or with the money of outside countries using gold.
            New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
            Inconvertible through the time