employable

adjective

im-ˈplȯi-ə-bəl How to pronounce employable (audio)
Definition of employablenext
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 The nonprofit works to solve the challenges of education, job training and developing the skills for workers to be employable. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2026 All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable. — 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 See All Example Sentences for employable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employable
  1. useful
  2. available
Adjective
  • Apple Vision Pro proved particularly useful for judging the scale of sets before physical construction.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • As Japan entered a period of political upheaval in the mid-nineteenth century, criminal gangs became useful in a new way.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of useful
Adjective
  • Rolapp, meanwhile, said in January there was no guarantee the program that brought Koepka back would be available again.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • So the other, cheaper bird that’s for sale — the $2,000 bird that a clerk might have told her about — is that available in-house, or is that a special order?
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of available

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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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