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

Bellingham has followed a similar trajectory off the pitch, emerging as one of the sport’s most marketable young stars.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
That depends on how many, if any, research projects lead to marketable treatments.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of marketable

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

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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

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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

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