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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
  • Analysts caution that Federal Reserve monetary policy and corporate earnings cycles exert a far greater influence on equity performance than election outcomes alone.
    — , CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
  • While Democrats notched historic upsets nationwide — including in places like Kansas, which broke a 90-year streak — Texas carries outsized national weight given the recent corporate stampede to the state.
    — Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • About one-third of the marketable debt — more than $10 trillion — must be refinanced in the next 12 months.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • The Russian missiles that hit overnight across the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, damaged homes and commercial properties, triggering new power and water outages, national and city authorities said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Together, those businesses span much of a card’s commercial journey — grading, pricing, storage, sales and even financing against collectibles.
    — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
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
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
Adjective
  • The ensuing advertising battle for Davis' seat cost well over $50 million, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact, ranking among the most expensive House races nationally.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The Senate election was the most expensive non-presidential race on record in advertisement spending, according to AdImpact, which tracks ad buys.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026

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

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