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exchangeability

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property or state of being exchangeable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being exchangeable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being exchangeable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange

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Examples

  • The relationship is, to be precise, exchangeability.

    skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 3 skzbrust 2010

  • The relationship is, to be precise, exchangeability.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

  • Over 95% of all dollars in existence today were "printed" through bank lending since 1971, when Nixon reneged on gold exchangeability.

    Bill Baker: The Real Reason for QE2 Bill Baker 2010

  • Over 95% of all dollars in existence today were "printed" through bank lending since 1971, when Nixon reneged on gold exchangeability.

    Bill Baker: The Real Reason for QE2 Bill Baker 2010

  • Value value val-yü n. 1: the desirability of something, in respect to usefulness and/or exchangeability 2: worth or importance

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • Value value val-yü n. 1: the desirability of something, in respect to usefulness and/or exchangeability 2: worth or importance

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • Value value val-yü n. 1: the desirability of something, in respect to usefulness and/or exchangeability 2: worth or importance

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • But whereas money has dominated society as the representation of universal equivalence — the exchangeability of different goods whose uses remain uncomparable — the spectacle is the modern complement of money: a representation of the commodity world as a whole which serves as a general equivalent for what the entire society can be and can do.

    2009 August 2009

  • But whereas money has dominated society as the representation of universal equivalence — the exchangeability of different goods whose uses remain uncomparable — the spectacle is the modern complement of money: a representation of the commodity world as a whole which serves as a general equivalent for what the entire society can be and can do.

    Society of the Spectacle pt 2- Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

  • As an extension of female sexuality, then, commodification also extends that constitutive passivity to the absolute emptiness of fetishization; that is, the stasis and the consequent lack of status of the female figure result in an emptying out of significance that coincides with the process by which fetishization empties bodies, beings, and practices of all significance except their exchangeability with objects (85). close window

    Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006

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