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.
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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.
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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.
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Brian Payton,
Smithsonian,
9 Feb. 2018
Today, the land for sale has what's estimated to be 2 million board feet of merchantable timber.
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Janet Eastman,
OregonLive.com,
26 May 2017
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchantable
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Alphabet, which ended its first quarter with about $127 billion in cash and marketable securities, has just done so anyway.
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Morgan turned into one of the most marketable athletes in the country.
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Claude has been gross margin positive since the day Anthropic began selling it, profitable on the first dollar of customer spend rather than the thousandth.
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And as the 2023 dual writers’ and actors’ strikes thinned out theatrical lineups, that aversion to uncertainty became a push for reliable and profitable hits.
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As artificial intelligence transforms the job market and rising living costs squeeze family budgets, the University of California system is making the case that its degrees remain valuable investments.
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Those types of players are still enormously valuable because many of their skills are always valuable.
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After a very disappointing campaign, there are fewer saleable assets this time around but this payment will ease those concerns.
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But, with the advent of platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, the online self became highly saleable.
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But for Cubans like himself, who don’t have family in the United States, the service is so expensive as to be out of reach.
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But after a series of expensive hurricanes — Katrina, Sandy, Harvey — the National Flood Insurance Program went into debt.
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Compile your existing content into sellable resources.
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These are safety improvements, but developers have a great incentive to improve the science of stairwells as these spaces have no sellable square footage.
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“Merchantable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchantable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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