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as in commercial
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale
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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as in marketable
fit to be offered for sale
the car has to be put in better condition before it will be at all salable
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Recent Examples of salable
One of its most salable assets, the energetic left back Ian Maatsen, is actually on loan from Chelsea.
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
First, there’s the pretty, quiet Paloma (Jennifer Trejo), a nascent math and science prodigy, who helps her ailing father (Gilberto Barraza) mine salable scrap metal from the smelly garbage dump near their makeshift home.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
This is the story, initially set in the nineteenth century, of seven chocolate makers -- three English, one Dutch, two Swiss, and one American -- struggling to produce salable products.
—Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2011
Sixteen ounces of salable meat per month is a long way from the more than 4,000 pounds per month that Upside says its factory is capable of producing.
—WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
First, there’s the pretty, quiet Paloma (Jennifer Trejo), a nascent math and science prodigy, who helps her ailing father (Gilberto Barraza) mine salable scrap metal from the smelly garbage dump near their makeshift home.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
This is the story, initially set in the nineteenth century, of seven chocolate makers -- three English, one Dutch, two Swiss, and one American -- struggling to produce salable products.
—Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2011
Sixteen ounces of salable meat per month is a long way from the more than 4,000 pounds per month that Upside says its factory is capable of producing.
—WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salable
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Boeing had been developing the vehicle to join SpaceX's Dragon as a second operational spacecraft for NASA under the space agency's commercial crew program.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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After a rousing response at the big Alamo Drafthouse Lamar screening at SXSW, this colorful, populist portrait of a swath of python hunters — and by extension, America — could hit a commercial nerve.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Overall, Berkshire’s holdings of marketable securities dropped from $354 billion in 2023 to $272 billion at the end of 2024.—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Curry has been one of the NBA’s most marketable players for the past decade, and his off-court earnings got a bump last year under his latest long-term Under Armour contract extension.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That’s very much an extrapolation of current-day dynamics in our system of government and corporate control through debt.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Trump vowed to introduce a series of tax cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent for firms that produce their products in the U.S. and ending the taxation of tips and overtime wages for waiting staff and other service workers.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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His ratings have been profitable 53% of the time, delivering an average return of 10.3%.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
16 Mar. 2025
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Even profitable businesses can fail without enough cash to cover expenses.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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