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Definition of Inconvertible
1. Adjective. Used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value.
Attributes: Convertibility
Similar to: Irredeemable
Antonyms: Convertible
Derivative terms: Inconvertibility, Unexchangeability
2. Adjective. Not capable of being changed into something else. "The alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature of elemental metals"
Definition of Inconvertible
1. a. Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie.
Definition of Inconvertible
1. Adjective. Not convertible ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inconvertible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconvertible
Literary usage of Inconvertible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political Economy by Francis Amasa Walker (1888)
"I know of nothing in the history of inconvertible paper money to ... Let us,
then, inquire further respecting inconvertible paper money, on this score. 218. ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1904)
"This is not impracticable, even with an inconvertible paper. ... If, therefore,
the issue of inconvertible paper were subjected to strict rules, ..."
3. Money and Credit Instruments in Their Relation to General Prices by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1907)
"CHAPTER IV inconvertible PAPER MONEY The essential differences between the exchange
system of the hypothetical society so far developed and that of our ..."
4. Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History by Henry Varnum Poor (1877)
""inconvertible notes," says Fawcett, " will be as freely accepted as coin, if
people have confidence that an inconvertible currency is only a temporary ..."
5. Principles of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1897)
"inconvertible PAPER. § 1. inconvertible Paper as illustrating the Quantity Theory.
The nearest approximation to the simple form of the quantity theory is ..."
6. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"of inconvertible paper. Partly by taking advantage of the established habit,
partly by mere force of law, governments found it possible to make promises to ..."
7. Elements of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1903)
"inconvertible Notes.—inconvertible notes, as the name implies, are bank-notes,
the conversion of which into coin (eg gold) is suspended, or indefinitely ..."
8. Money by Francis Amasa Walker (1878)
"ILLUSTRATIONS OF inconvertible PATER MONEY. WE have perhaps gone far enough in
the theory of the subject, to make it profitable to take up the history of ..."
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