nonfungible
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nonfungible (not comparable)
- (chiefly property law, finance) Not fungible, not interchangeable.
- 1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107:
- Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another.
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nonfungible (plural nonfungibles)
- (chiefly in the plural) Any nonfungible item.