interconvertible

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For, by a marvelous harmony, in social economy all these adjectives are interconvertible.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

The Government accumulated a conversion fund, understood to be $60,000,000 to $70,000,000, but owing to crises at home and abroad it has not yet been able to make gold and paper notes interconvertible.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

Manhood and brass buttons were with her interconvertible terms, and the idea of uniting her young life to a plain civilian seemed to her nothing less than shocking.

From Captain Jinks, Hero by Beard, Daniel Carter

He had little respect for the gifts or views that could not be made interconvertible with newspaper results.

From Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" by Various

All we have to say is, that, if we do not now absolutely know, we do reasonably suspect, that heat and light are mere mechanical motions, alike in nature and interconvertible in fact.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various