salable
adjective
sal·able
ˈsā-lə-bəl 
variants
or saleable
: capable of being or fit to be sold : marketable
Examples of salable in a Sentence
We'll have to repaint the house for it to be salable.
an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity
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Whether the converter intends to create a rental or a condo building, if the overall structure is much wider than 60 or 65 feet, the converter may need to go to extreme measures to give the residential units enough light and air while maintaining a high ratio of salable or rentable space.
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Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
In the past 10 years there’s been a lot of innovation in packaging integration, which is the final manufacturing process that transforms semiconductor devices into salable products.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2019
The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
In the past 10 years there’s been a lot of innovation in packaging integration, which is the final manufacturing process that transforms semiconductor devices into salable products.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2019
The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salable. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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salable
adjective
sal·able
variants
or saleable
: capable of being or good enough to be sold
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