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US
/ˈfəndʒɪbəɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈʌndʒəbəl/ ]
[ UK /fˈʌndʒəbəl/ ]
NOUN
- a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation
ADJECTIVE
- of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation
How To Use fungible In A Sentence
- We had a little bit of a blind spot in that we always thought that smartness was fungible into whatever needed to be done, because a few of our early employees were like that.
- I know enough about the appropriations process to know that federal money isn't entirely fungible, but I think this is a valid question because of the enormous debt we have taken on in order to liberate Iraq.
- Many poets seem threatened by the apparently easily appropriated and fungible modes of prose and prosaic rationality.
- It is true, as I concede in the essay, that money is fungible.
- Petroleum is fungible or freely exchangeable, and cannot be ‘controlled.’
- The financial industry is clearly on the leading edge of moving toward e-commerce as a solution; and with fungible products such as insurance or money, it is a perfect e-commerce candidate.
- A group of pre-pubescent children are playing hunt-and-seek with their big-eyed pet companions, brandishing makeshift spears and automatic rifles -- there's no danger here, for bodies are fungible, rebuilt in a minute by the assembler/disassembler gates in every room. Asimov's Science Fiction
- The Court reasoned that since money is fungible, government funding for secular purposes could be used by religious organizations for sectarian ends.
- These homes are what economists like to call fungible, easily converted from one commodity into another. CNN.com
- Sanctioned countries with exports that are fungible commodities and that are limited in supply (such as oil) feel very little effect from U.S. sanctions on their exports.