Marketable
['mɑːkɪtəb(ə)l] or ['mɑrkɪtəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being marketed; 'the marketable surplus' .
(adj.) being in demand by especially employers; 'marketable skills' .
(adj.) fit to be offered for sale; 'marketable produce' .
Checker: Prudence--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable.
(a.) Current in market; as, marketable value.
(a.) Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Salable.
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Examples
- Other improvements were made, and in 1891 the first hundred machines that were really marketable were manufactured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Improvements in transport were also making Australian wool an increasingly marketable commodity in Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Bambridge made this remark with an air of disgust, satisfied that his own bragging showed a fine sense of the marketable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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