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nonsalable

adjective

Definition of nonsalablenext
as in unsalable

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  1. unsalable
  2. noncommercial
Adjective
  • Whatever’s unsalable will be delivered to the project for sorting, reuse and recycling.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
Definition of unsalable
Adjective
  • Until 1984, college athletics were excluded from antitrust law because antitrust didn’t deal with noncommercial, amateur pursuits.
    — Sen. Rand Paul OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But the atmosphere around the pilgrimage is decidedly noncommercial.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of noncommercial
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“Nonsalable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsalable. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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