interconvertible

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These favoreggiatori or manutengoli (the terms are interconvertible, but the first is the legal one) were sometimes benevolently inclined.

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  1. Convertible each into the other; capable of being exchanged equivalently, the one for the other: as, interconvertible terms.

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  • In premodern medical theory, blood and milk were supposedly interconvertible. —  Latest Articles
  • These favoreggiatori or manutengoli (the terms are interconvertible, but the first is the legal one) were sometimes benevolently inclined. —  Old Calabria
  • Papacy and Camorra--interconvertible terms--who could plumb their depths? —  South Wind
  • Papacy and Camorra -- interconvertible terms -- who could plumb their depths? —  South Wind
  • His own summary of his position, given on page 212 of this book, shows that he desired a national legal-tender paper currency, irredeemable in coin, but "interconvertible" with government bonds, and regulated by law as to volume per capita; a "discriminating" protective tariff, "helpful to all the industries of the country, where the raw material and the labor can be furnished by our own people;" and a civil service divorced from party politics, based on personal fitness, with tenure of office during good behavior, moderate salaries, and pensions for the aged and sick, and provision for widows and orphans. —  Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4
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