an employee with highly marketable skills
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
Recent Examples on the WebRules of the road At a school where there's sometimes friction between industrial design students bound for the automobile industry and students with less immediately marketable goals, the contest served as something of an intersection.—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024 The result is unprecedented attention for a league looking for its next marketable star.—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024 On the balance sheet, the company recorded $568 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and no long-term debt despite its recent acquisitions.—Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Yet the production reflects how some artists are trying to navigate the changing landscape of both what is permissible and what is marketable in China.—Claire Fu, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024 CMOs in the nonprofit space (and on the for-profit side) now work to build a marketable mission, capture a new generation of employees and supporters, and face the relentless pace of digital transformation.—Simone Grapini Goodman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 While there are still many questions to be answered, and some investors are wary, most remain bullish on Ohtani and his future career and potential — as a ballplayer and marketable athlete.—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 Moreover, high schools should start creating pathways to two-year and certificate programs that teach marketable skills and promise careers that make decent money.—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024 Over the past decade, Crawford and others have studied these drugs in clinical trials, but none of these studies has resulted in a marketable drug.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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