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Meanings of unconvertible in English

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

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      1
      This means that every Protestant king should massacre all his inconvertible Catholic subjects!
      John Knox and the Reformation
      2
      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
      Usage of unconvertible in English
      1
      If the situation created by the War has transformed also the English circulation into unconvertible paper money, this is merely a passing fact.
      Peaceless Europe
      2
      A hasty count revealed $53,000 in currency and about $40,000 in bonds, mortgage deeds, and other unconvertible valuables.
      Jim Cummings; Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
      Unconvertible through the time