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/ˈseɪləbl̩/ · adjective
Suitable for sale; marketable; worth enough to try to sell; that can be sold (i.e., for which it is possible to find a willing and able buyer)..
Near-synonyms: vendable, vendible
They held an estate sale last Saturday, which cleared out everything that was saleable; what's left will require a skip for disposal.
Consider what a rough worme-eaten table / By well-mix'd colours is made ſaleable; / Or how toad-houſing ſculs, and old ſwart bones / Are grac'd with painted toombs and plated ſtones; […]
Cato cenſureth fitly of them percunctatores garruli [talkative idle], and Plautus amplie deſcribeth their natures, terming them by an old but ſignificant name of famigeratores, as filled both in the eares and in the mouth, with a certaine ſaleable windy matter of rumours and reports.
With the extension of traffic in space and with the expansion over ever longer intervals of time of prevision for satisfying material needs, each individual would learn, from his own economic interests, to take good heed that he bartered his less saleable goods for those special commodities which displayed, beside the attraction of being highly saleable in the particular locality, a wide range of saleableness both in time and place.
Perhaps the central unsolved problem for multispecies fishery management is the problem of finding a saleable, operational catch-phrase to replace MSY [maximum sustainable yield], or if that proves impossible, an understandable series of basic management principles.
Ronnie [Van Zant], meanwhile, was strutting hard. After getting home from Knebworth, he began wearing a T-shirt that definitely was not for sale. It read, who the fuck are the rolling stones anyway? That cocky attitude was as salable a quality as any band apparel.
The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete. Not to mention more saleable too, his role closer to the way Europe's monied giants in Spain and France allow their stars to function.
Use saleable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Saleable means Suitable for sale; marketable; worth enough to try to sell; that can be sold (i.e., for which it is possible to find a willing and able buyer)..
Common synonyms include sellable, vendable, vendible, ware.
Possible antonyms include unsaleable, unsalable, unsellable, unmerchantable.
Near-synonyms: vendable, vendible
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