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unexportable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + exportable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not exportable.
    • In “The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate,” Norma Barzman, Ben Barzman’s widow, writes that Mr. Bronston had been able to finance his Spanish operations thanks to an arrangement with the DuPont family, who wanted to sell oil to Spain under Franco but did not want to be paid in unexportable Spanish pesetas. 2008 January 29, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times: