marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl How to pronounce marketable (audio)
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 noun

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
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One of them — the real Boris Berezovsky (Will Keen) — takes Baranov under his wing to help orchestrate the path to power of Putin (Jude Law), a cold, crafty and not-very-marketable former spy who was appointed by Yeltsin to run the FSB (ex-KGB) in 1998. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 Gauff is the most marketable tennis player in the world. Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 But the three-time major winner remains one of the Tour's most marketable figures, despite not winning since 2022 and sitting outside the top 50 in the current FedEx Cup standings. Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025 Still, the costs that companies can deduct from royalties vary by state, depending on how states define when a product is marketable. Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marketable

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of marketable was in 1600

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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marketable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

Kids Definition

marketable

adjective
mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kət-ə-bəl How to pronounce marketable (audio)
1
: fit to be offered for sale
food that has gone bad is not marketable
2
: wanted by purchasers or employers
marketable skills
marketability noun

Legal Definition

marketable

adjective
mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl How to pronounce marketable (audio)
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 noun

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