salable

adjective sal·able \ ˈsā-lə-bəl \

variants: or saleable

Examples: salable in a Sentence

: capable of being or fit to be sold : marketable

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salability

play \ˌsā-lə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

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Examples of salable in a Sentence

We'll have to repaint the house for it to be salable.
an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity

Recent Examples of salable from the Web

Betzig is toying with the idea of harnessing his microscope to create salable art in his retirement.

— jeffery delviscio, STAT, "A new microscope spies the raucous beauty within living cells," 19 Apr. 2018
There are the stories of the strictly financial, like when a piece that was once a symbol of everlasting love morphs into a strictly salable commodity that helps to pay the mortgage, a child’s college tuition or a charitable donation.

— jane gordon julien, New York Times, "The Marriage Is Over, but the Jewelry Is Mine," 18 Jan. 2018
In guidebooks, charm tends to be a commercial marker, a signifier for an imaginary, easily salable and consumable notion of authenticity.

— manohla dargis, New York Times, "Review: In ‘Spettacolo,’ a Tuscan Town Where All the World’s a Stage," 5 Sep. 2017
Galleries from all over the world send their representatives here with some of their finest, or at least most salable, art, and members of the Chicago art world put on their finest clothes and go out to meet them.

— aimee levitt, Chicago Reader, "Arts / Visual Art Another EXPO, another long weekend of art-world spectacle," 14 Sep. 2017
Estimates of the salable value of the city's Caravaggios and van Goghs were coming in at $2 billion or more.

— kevin conley, Town & Country, "How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Arts," 23 Apr. 2015
There was no market to speak of, so little incentive to make salable objects.

— karen rosenberg, New York Times, "From Hungary, the Secret Language of a Silenced People," 22 June 2017
World Supersport regulations require the bikes to be homologated, or salable to the public and legal for street driving.

— joe michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, "2017 Honda CBR 600RR: A proven sub-1,000cc class winner," 11 May 2017
For the rest of the assets, many of them are ultimately salable.

— steven davidoff solomon and michael j. de la merced, New York Times, "Deal Professor," 6 Dec. 2016

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