adjective
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subject to cancellation by repayment at a specified date or under specified conditions
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payable in or convertible into cash
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Etymology
Origin of redeemable
Example Sentences
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This system came under strain in the 1960s “when the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation exceeded domestic gold reserves redeemable at fixed value, leading to periodic runs on the dollar in foreign exchange.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
I will continue to look for something redeemable about how the court got from Milligan to Callais.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
Strategy’s debt yields nearly 8% due to investor concerns about the company’s ability to repay convertible bonds redeemable in 2028.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
The latter may be their only redeemable quality.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
They differ from the silver certificates in another respect; they are redeemable either in gold or silver coin, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
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