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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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
Restricting federal loans in this way would encourage schools to shift their curricula to favor more marketable skills.
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
In reality, there turns out to be a third currency: marketable skills, like literacy.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Alphabet closed the year with $96 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Today's high-performance EVs are few and far between, with most automakers concentrating on delivering the most marketable model.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
In reality, there turns out to be a third currency: marketable skills, like literacy.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Alphabet closed the year with $96 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Today's high-performance EVs are few and far between, with most automakers concentrating on delivering the most marketable model.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
Adjective
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Well, unfortunately, division is very profitable in America.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2025
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During the pandemic, Roman started his most dominate run: A game-changing era as champion that lasted 1,316 days and anchored WWE to their most profitable time ever.—
Shaheem Reid,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Samuels said the biggest challenges in the coming years will be to convince advertisers not to pigeonhole the company as a niche buy, especially given the Trump administration’s shameless bullying of corporate America on any activities focused on diversity, civil rights or equity considerations.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2025
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For The 1st Time — At Lower Prices Company History Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was established in 2015 as part of a corporate restructuring to better manage Google's diverse ventures.—
Adam Sarhan,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Indeed, returning director Gavin O'Connor and Affleck seem eager to take the more salable points of the character — his neuroatypical skills — and ditch the moody, dramatic parts.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Whether the converter intends to create a rental or a condo building, if the overall structure is much wider than 60 or 65 feet, the converter may need to go to extreme measures to give the residential units enough light and air while maintaining a high ratio of salable or rentable space.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The company received a boost when Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA and a commercial astronaut himself, publicly congratulated Monday’s mission.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
19 Apr. 2025
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In other words, beauty, for much of the twentieth century and beyond, has been a method of commercial coercion.—
Ocean Vuong,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life.—
Christian Elliott,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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Senior executives are now shouldering more direct reports, managing tasks once owned by middle managers, and losing valuable time for strategic thinking.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Critics dismissed it as expensive and unnecessary, arguing that students could read a guide or browse online forums for free.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Mandatory spending—like those entitlement programs—is much more expensive than discretionary spending.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Qualifying timber must be merchantable, which is the market maker’s effort to ensure that offsets aren’t produced with trees that wouldn’t otherwise be cut.—
Ryan Dezember,
WSJ,
26 May 2021
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The beetle has devoured 18 million hectares of forest in British Columbia alone, killing 60 percent of its merchantable pine.—
Robinson Meyer,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2021
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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