| 单词 | fungible |
| 释义 | fungible (once / 129883 pages) adjn If something is fungible, you can exchange it for something else. Why is it that you can trade a twenty dollar bill for a ten and two fives? Because money's fungible! The “g” in fungible is pronounced like a “j” or like the “g” in “fudge,” though fungible things aren't always tasty. Fungible comes from a Latin phrase meaning “to serve in place of” and that's what something that's fungible does: serves in place of what it's exchanged for. WORD FAMILYfungible: fungibility, fungibles USAGE EXAMPLESThe typical length of an N.F.L. career is less than four years, and most football players are surprisingly fungible. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) Language is so fungible a medium that English has absorbed dozens of Yiddish words, like chutzpah, kvetch, kibitz, megillah, schmooze, nosh and schlock. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) But they also acknowledge that U.S.-provided weapons are fungible and planes refueled by the United States can conduct multiple missions. Washington Post(Oct 03, 2016) 1adj of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation Syn exchangeable suitable to be exchanged 2n a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation Hyper commodity, good, trade good articles of commerce |
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