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
Recent Examples on the Web 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 The company refers to the operation as a biorefinery, reflecting its beyond-ethanol focus on clean-energy products and other marketable grain biproducts. Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024 The zinc concentrate is expected to be a marketable concentrate with no deleterious elements other than an iron penalty. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024 Your hobbies might also involve marketable skills — e.g., photography, video creation, podcasting, editing. Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Its arrival upended conventions for young readers, whose fervor for realism made mature themes marketable. Melena Ryzik Adali Schell, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marketable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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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