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n. - The quality of not being exchangeable.

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  • The inconvertibility of their currency made international trade impossible
  • Thus, dollar inconvertibility into gold came internationally some 37 years after President Roosevelt suspended domestic dollar convertibility in 1933.
  • The business of insuring foreign investors against sovereign acts like expropriation, change in law, currency inconvertibility and war-so-called "political risk...
  • There is also some inconvertibility within the sterling area between the British pound and for example the Australian, since imports have still to be limited for balance...
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