uncommerciable

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1. Not commerciable.

   By prohibiting all his Majesty's subjects from dealing in tobacco, except with a single company, one third of the exports of the United States are rendered uncommerciable here.

   1829, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

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   By artist I mean of course everyone who had tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommerciable ones of the human spirit.

   1998, Robert C. Berg, Garry L. Landreth, Kevin A. Fall, Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures, →ISBN, page 157

   The negative neo-liberal approach opposes a system as a whole that involves the state as a party in otherwise private contractual arrangements, the creation of inalienable assets and enlarged transaction costs in a 'complex' 'unworkable' uncommerciable way.

   2011, P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights, →ISBN