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fungible
[ fuhn-juh-buhl ]
adjective
- Law, Commerce. (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind:
Appliances are usually fungible—that is, they can be replaced with cash or a similar item of equal value.
- capable of being exchanged or interchanged; interchangeable:
Neither ethanol nor biodiesel is fully fungible with petroleum-based fuels.
Large corporations are likely to view both customers and employees as fungible, replaceable commodities.
fungible
/ ˈfʌndʒɪbəl /
noun
- often plural moveable perishable goods of a sort that may be estimated by number or weight, such as grain, wine, etc
adjective
- having the nature or quality of fungibles
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Derived Forms
- ˌfungiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- fun·gi·bil·i·ty [fuhn-j, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- non·fun·gi·ble adjective
- un·fun·gi·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fungible1
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Example Sentences
Words are tools in an information war and facts are fungible.
In the shower, I sing the phrase “fungible commodities” far too often.
And they're to some extent fungible, but this amounts exactly to "kicking the can down the road."
So while expectations are optimistic, any dates, at least for the time being, should be fungible and are not set in stone.
Then the whole impetus in the newsroom is to say "We have to make it better, if we don't it will become fungible."
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