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UK
/ɛkstʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/
]
[ US /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability
interchangeable parts
interchangeable electric outlets - suitable to be exchanged
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capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value
convertible securities
How To Use exchangeable In A Sentence
- Under the conditions of modernity, what is disputed is precisley the transcendent dimension of beauty, exchangeable (sc. insofar) with truth and goodness. Fr Lang on Beauty and the Liturgy
- These finely embellished banknotes were once exchangeable for gold at a variable price.
- And the waitperson explained that shrimp and bacon are not an exchangeable menu item - it would have to be one or the other.
- They themselves become exchangeable representatives of that a priori value.
- It is telling that this frozen instant is capable of being released in time as a movie, for which it serves as virtual seed, even as the movie, as actualization of that seed, is virtually exchangeable with that seed.
- Mr Sullivan believes the most likely option will be to refinance the existing €170m preference shares through either another convertible, exchangeable or private placement to lengthen the groups debt maturity profile.
- The soil's content of soluble aluminum (called "exchangeable" aluminum) is probably even more important, and the portable pH kits cannot measure this. Chapter 9
- We used an exchangeable correlation structure to adjust for the correlation between repeated measurements.
- If this seems recommended, it is these reinforcers which might be exchangeable for tokens, which are delivered contingent on more desirable behavior.
- What Holmes is saying here is that even though property is exchangeable, it doesn't arise from value; it's a creation of law.