marketable

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

Synonyms of marketable

• profitable
• salable
• valuable
• expensive
• sellable

Examples of marketable in a Sentence

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

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

But a formal deal never materialized, especially as David chafed at possible rewrites that might make the dark comedy more marketable. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026

Bellingham has followed a similar trajectory off the pitch, emerging as one of the sport’s most marketable young stars. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026

That depends on how many, if any, research projects lead to marketable treatments. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

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