MERCHANTABLE Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

merchantable

adjective

ˈmər-chən-tə-bəl

Definition of merchantable

as in marketable

fit to be offered for sale a logging operation that strips an area of all of its trees, only a small percentage of which will yield merchantable timber

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Recent Examples of merchantable 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 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 If only one percent of those logs escaped and somehow eluded beachcombers, that means 100 million board feet of merchantable timber became driftwood each year. — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018 Today, the land for sale has what's estimated to be 2 million board feet of merchantable timber. — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017

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Adjective

Deion Sanders, the University of Colorado’s $10-million-a-year football coach, arrived on the Boulder campus in December 2022 raring to turn nearly every facet of his larger-than-life persona into a marketable brand.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
That ability to manipulate light could turn out to be a marketable tool in the next phase of the AI race, where data centers, bottlenecked by the limits of copper wiring, are switching to using fiber optics instead.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of marketable

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The company’s profitable services business grew less than 10% during the September quarter, the slowest expansion since 2022.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, as hip-house took hold Stateside, those who had licked a new sonic language weren’t going to sit a profitable wave out.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of profitable

Adjective

Researchers in Germany are testing two processes to recover valuable metals from old magnets, including a method that uses ammonium chloride instead of conventional hydrochloric acid.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
An outright ban on the use of the technology would remove a valuable tool only because some departments have used it carelessly.

— Edward Longe, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of valuable

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

Supporting Florida’s space industry does not need to be expensive.

— Max Harden, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
With the absence of any major AI company and relatively expensive valuations, investors have picked markets such as South Korea and Taiwan over India, experts said.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of expensive

Adjective

That lowers the barrier to entry and makes the practice sellable to buyers who were never going to invest in a dedicated plunge tub.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
In our experience, that constraint is what makes autonomy sellable to a CFO at all.

— Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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