uncommerciable
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + commerciable.
Adjective
edituncommerciable (comparative more uncommerciable, superlative most uncommerciable)
- Not commerciable.
- 1829, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson:
- By prohibiting all his Majesty's subjects from dealing in tobacco, except with a single company, one third of the exports of the United States are rendered uncommerciable here.
- 1998, Robert C. Berg, Garry L. Landreth, Kevin A. Fall, Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures, →ISBN, page 157:
- By artist I mean of course everyone who had tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommerciable ones of the human spirit.
- 2011, P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights, →ISBN:
- The negative neo-liberal approach opposes a system as a whole that involves the state as a party in otherwise private contractual arrangements, the creation of inalienable assets and enlarged transaction costs in a 'complex' 'unworkable' uncommerciable way.