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Definition of salablenext
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as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity

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Recent Examples of salable But, with the advent of platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, the online self became highly saleable. T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Bulls that aren’t saleable become steer for the ranch’s beef market, a direct-to-consumer enterprise through which local families can purchase beef by the pound or buy beef shares — freezer beef sold in quarters, halves or wholes. Matt Alderton, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026 With most of the master’s level degrees, any pretense of value beyond rendering the prospective students more salable in the workforce is often dispensed with entirely. James Cramer, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2026 Because fellow directors usually aim to make movies better, not just more salable. Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for salable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salable
Adjective
  • Even if corporate needs are the main reason why creatives are still getting to tell stories set in a galaxy far, far away, the meta conversation found in these tales might help refresh and save Star Wars.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Aside from the hundreds of thousands in corporate PAC money and tens of thousands raised through AIPAC, Apollo Global Capital is one of the biggest sources of funding for Larson.
    Readers Speak, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The real opportunity may lie in slow diffusion and integration, a less marketable but potentially sound thesis.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Maryland should stop selling marketable securities shortly after receiving them.
    Mark Lewyn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The Houthis are one of several Iranian proxies that have threatened to widen the conflict with the rebel group striking commercial shipping and recently ramping up attacks targeting Saudi Arabia.
    Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Today, its commercial shipbuilding industry has more than 230 times the production capacity of the United States.
    Ariyan Kabir, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The $55 billion deal — part-funded with $20 billion borrowed against EA itself — buys Riyadh a profitable business and control of some of the biggest franchises in the world’s biggest entertainment industry.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Companies are watching their cash piles dwindle, betting that all these upfront investments on data centers and costly AI systems from the likes of Nvidia will be profitable in the long run.
    Ari Levy,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Estate sales often come with financial obligations and deadlines that ordinary consignments do not, which can make certainty particularly valuable.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • That network will offer valuable alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz during times of crisis.
    Firmesk Rahim, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Profitable and sellable are two different things, and only one of them determines whether a business buyer will actually write you a check.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • What began as a daytime quiz became a durable, repeatable, internationally sellable format precisely because the two halves of the business were aligned on risk, testing and long-term exploitation.
    Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • Supplies are also getting more expensive, according to a report from The Century Foundation.
    Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The expensive and largely unproven strategy would entail launching a network of satellites that rely on constant energy from the sun to compute data in orbit and beam it down to Earth.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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