adjective
- able to be exchanged or replaced by another identical item; interchangeable
Usage: legal; economics
Examples
- Money is fungible because one dollar bill can be replaced by any other dollar bill.
- Oil is a fungible commodity that can be traded on global markets.
- The contract specified that the goods must be fungible and of equal quality.
- Gold bars are fungible assets since they have identical value regardless of their source.
- Unlike fungible tokens, each piece of artwork is unique and irreplaceable.
- The lawyer explained that fungible property can be measured by quantity rather than individual characteristics.