marketable

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adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl 

1

a

: fit to be offered for sale in a market

food that is not marketable

b

: wanted by purchasers or employers : salable

marketable securities

marketable skills

2

: of or relating to buying or selling

marketability

ˌmär-kə-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun

marketability

2 of 2

noun

mar·​ket·​abil·​i·​ty ˌmärkə̇təˈbilət|ē 

ˌmȧk-, 

-kə̇təˈbilət|, 

|i

: the quality or state of being marketable

specifically : the degree to which assets can be disposed of for cash without causing a major decline in price

Synonyms of marketable

Adjective

• profitable
• salable
• valuable
• expensive
• sellable

Examples of marketable in a Sentence

Adjective

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 Web

Adjective

About one-third of the marketable debt — more than $10 trillion — must be refinanced in the next 12 months. — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026

Deion Sanders, the University of Colorado’s $10-million-a-year football coach, arrived on the Boulder campus in December 2022 raring to turn nearly every facet of his larger-than-life persona into a marketable brand. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026

That ability to manipulate light could turn out to be a marketable tool in the next phase of the AI race, where data centers, bottlenecked by the limits of copper wiring, are switching to using fiber optics instead. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

The vicious cycle of the current model, of course, is that to become marketable a team needs to get and retain good players, and to do that a school has to spend money, which cycles the whole thing back to the start. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for marketable

• unmarketable

Kids Definition

marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kət-ə-bəl 

1

: fit to be offered for sale

food that has gone bad is not marketable

2

: wanted by purchasers or employers

marketable skills

marketability

ˌmär-kət-ə-ˈbil-ət-ē 

noun

Legal Definition

marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl 

1

: fit to be offered for sale : being such as may be justly or lawfully sold or bought

marketable goods

2

: wanted by buyers

marketable securities

marketability

ˌmär-kə-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun