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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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Irish butter may now an internationally marketable commodity, but in Swift’s day, the Irish peasantry fought back against their replacement by cattle by maiming and driving the unfortunate cattle off cliffs.
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Yet the way these big brands packaged and sold Puerto Rican food, music, and symbols carried with it a slightly empty, disingenuous air—the nuances of Caribbean culture distilled into a marketable aesthetic.
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This has caused more professional associations to struggle to sell their knowledge base programs, but skill dev training remains marketable.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Irish butter may now an internationally marketable commodity, but in Swift’s day, the Irish peasantry fought back against their replacement by cattle by maiming and driving the unfortunate cattle off cliffs.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet the way these big brands packaged and sold Puerto Rican food, music, and symbols carried with it a slightly empty, disingenuous air—the nuances of Caribbean culture distilled into a marketable aesthetic.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025
This has caused more professional associations to struggle to sell their knowledge base programs, but skill dev training remains marketable.
—Tracy King, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marketable. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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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
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
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