: one who is employable
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Adjective
this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation
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Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2026
Rather than asking which skills AI will never replace, a better question is which skills are likely to remain relatively scarce, defensible, and employable as AI diffuses.
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All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable.
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These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
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Adjective
The nonprofit works to solve the challenges of education, job training and developing the skills for workers to be employable.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2026
Rather than asking which skills AI will never replace, a better question is which skills are likely to remain relatively scarce, defensible, and employable as AI diffuses.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable.
—Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
—Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for employable
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/employable. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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