Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being exhaustible; the capability of being exhausted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Capability of being exhausted.
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- noun The property of being
exhaustible .
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Examples
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Economic accounting does not properly count environmental damages and the exhaustibility of resources.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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And it is very characteristic both of my then state, and of the general tone of my mind at this period of my life, that I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations.
Chapter V. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1909
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Experiences with the exhaustibility of the sexual mechanism speak for the same thing.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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And it is very characteristic both of my then state, and of the general tone of my mind at this period of my life, that I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations.
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It has been a race between the exhaustibility of resources and innovation, and so far innovation has won, Buiter said.
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We are able to distinguish scarcity and exhaustibility, they are not.
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... many economists often think of oil prices as historically having been influenced little or none at all by the issue of exhaustibility.
Energy Bulletin - 2010
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Among statistical writers the late Mr. M'Culloch characterised the notions of the exhaustibility of our coal mines as utterly futile, both in the article on Coal, in his "Dictionary of Commerce," and in his "Account of the British Empire." [
The Coal Question~ Opinions of Previous Writers William Stanley Jevons 1865
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While the air, the sun’s heat, and in most parts of the world, water, are free and inexhaustible goods, the earth’s supply of food for plants must be considered as analogous, so far as its exhaustibility and capacity to be appropriated are concerned, to the beds of coal and of ore etc. which occur in mining districts.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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