marketable

adjective

ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl How to pronounce marketable (audio)
Definition of marketablenext
1
as in profitable
fit to be offered for sale realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs

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2
as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale trying to turn their invention into a marketable product

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Recent Examples of marketable Building the bridge makes the land more marketable to developers, and selling that land would bring a big paycheck for the RDC as well as jobs and tax revenue to the city. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 The labs are concentrating on making models better at marketable skills, like legal work and accounting. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026 As homesteading, cottagecore and tradwife content converge online, the overlap has made the category more marketable. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 The real opportunity may lie in slow diffusion and integration, a less marketable but potentially sound thesis. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marketable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
  1. profitable
  2. corporate
  3. salable
  4. commercial
  5. valuable
  6. expensive
  7. sellable
Adjective
  • FlavorCloud helps brands turn international demand into profitable revenue.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In terms of return for your talents, being a good hang is currently more profitable than writing jokes.
    — Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of profitable
Adjective
  • The Houthis bombed the corporate HQ of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, officials said.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In recent years, corporate consolidation and algorithmic pricing tools have made those imbalances worse.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of corporate
Adjective
  • Caring for a Christmas tree farm means growing trees, maintaining a saleable crop, and selling Christmas trees to the public.
    — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Her daughter, Rose Lane—a 43-year-old journalist with writer’s block who’d already mined and sold everything salable in her own life—pushed for drama and sensationalism.
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Definition of salable
Adjective
  • The company says several major railroads are now under contract to deploy its system for commercial freight transport.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
  • But there were 22 fewer Korean releases, and Korean commercial films averaged a return of minus 33% in 2025.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of commercial
Adjective
  • Regional authorities said that the entire caper was conducted within three minutes and that the thieves targeted the most valuable paintings in the museum, which occupies the French old master’s one-time residence.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Bassetti argued that the company’s scale represented an increasingly valuable asset for streamers.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of valuable
Adjective
  • His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Without more batteries, Illinois will be even more reliant on dirty, expensive electricity imports from other states and more likely to delay the natural gas power plant closures it’s planned for years to clean the air.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of expensive
Adjective
  • In our experience, that constraint is what makes autonomy sellable to a CFO at all.
    — Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • If sellable ratings points are squeezed by an early dip in deliveries and demand remains flat-to-up, scatter costs will rise.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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