as in useful
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose
this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation
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Recent Examples of employable
All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable.
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Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
—Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
But an uncle who worked as an aerospace engineer guided her to the more employable area of computer science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2010
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Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
—Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
But an uncle who worked as an aerospace engineer guided her to the more employable area of computer science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2010
See All Example Sentences for employable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employable
Adjective
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What started off as a striving novelty turned into something genuinely useful, and YouTube viewers took notice.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 Jan. 2026
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That information is not so accurately counted, so trends in total population are useful even if not perfectly aligned with economic productivity.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Further details were not immediately available.—
ANDREW DALTON,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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New episodes of The Rookie air Mondays on ABC and are available to stream on Hulu the following day.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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