Meaning

Capable of being waged or fought..

Definitions by Sense

1. Capable of being waged or fought.
2. For which wages can be paid.

Example Sentences

Possibly the contest was open to all school children; but our guess is that it was wageable among only subscribers to the American Boy.

The Soviets believe nuclear war is wageable and winnable, which is not to say they desire one or want to start one.

He thus participates in the general tendency of the time to numb critical attention to the problems in American society, to see the war as wageable only to the extent that it was an uncomplicated crusade.

This book seeks grounds for a wageable debate in philosophical anthropology by exploring critical attitudes toward different historical anthropologies and the narratives they can release or, perforce, repress.

...but this money was only lent, when he came to wageable ore he was paid for his ore at the current bargain price less the amount of lent money he had received.

Insecurity of employment, which is a prerequisite of work discipline, contradicts capital's requirement for unlimited quantities of potentially wageable labour.

However, this outcome was to be expected, given that Western capitalism is framed within a patriarchal ideology that did not incorporate women as "wageable" productive labor outside the household.

Word Forms

• more wageable
• most wageable

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Use wageable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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