infungible

infungible

English

Etymology

in- +‎ fungible

Adjective

infungible (not comparable)

1. not fungible, not capable of being exchanged easily.
   • 1963, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, An Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence, page 73:

     Infungible property is that which cannot be easily or at all substituted and for which varying prices are paid in the market, e.g. manuscripts,

   • 1998, Steven Rosefielde, Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond, Ashgate Publishing (→ISBN), page 225:

     Russian managers and entrepreneurs who seek to adapt to the new environment find themselves fettered by past infungible technological choices that neither adequately foresaw present contingencies, nor the long term needs of global competition.

   • 2014, Adrian Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wood, Richard Deeg, The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations, OUP Oxford (→ISBN)

     In other words, the human assets of workers are relatively infungible, in contrast to highly fungible segments of capital (Lane and Wood 2012).

Translations

Translations

Portuguese: infungível