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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
Recent Examples on the Web
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
The Persian Gulf, incidentally, is another land-poor, cash-rich enclave that has reached into the surrounding seas to extend its salable square footage.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023
But this blight on America’s economy and its politics can’t be removed within the framework of what’s politically salable today.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
In January 1984 the first salable Macintosh computer rolled off the line.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
The talk, naturally, is prelude to what makes action films so salable around the world: the first of many fight scenes that punctuate the three episodes out for review.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
Theft of mail, a federal offense that can result in five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, has been a problem for years as thieves foraging for checks, money orders and salable goods targeted individual mailboxes or grabbed packages from front porches.
—Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1530, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near salable
Cite this Entry
“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salable. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
salable
adjective
sal·able
variants
or saleable
: capable of being or good enough to be sold
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