Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Suitable or fit for sale; salable.
  • adjective Obsolete Venal.
  • noun Something that can be sold.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being or fit to be vended or sold; to be disposed of for money; salable; marketable.
  • noun Something to be sold or offered for sale: as, butter, fowls, cheese, and other vendibles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Something to be sold, or offered for sale.
  • adjective Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
  • noun Anything that can be bought and sold.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective fit to be offered for sale

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin vendibilis, from vendere ("to sell"). Compare vendable.

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Examples

  • The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject; or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured.

    Matthew Yglesias » From Snark to a Serious Question: Non-profit Productivity 2009

  • Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading.

    The common denominator 2010

  • The rule of thumb is that when a vendible good resembles even remotely the sort of thing one might actually desire or a thing only a tourist would buy, the price tag implies expensive pesos.

    Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution Lewis, Michael 2008

  • Any tobacco which might “not proove vendible” was liable to be burned.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Any tobacco which might “not proove vendible” was liable to be burned.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Any tobacco which might “not proove vendible” was liable to be burned.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • For when there is a company incorporate for any particular foreign country, they only export the commodities vendible in that country; which is sole buying at home, and sole selling abroad.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For in like manner, when the stubbornness of one popular man is overcome with reward, there arise many more by the example, that do the same mischief in hope of like benefit: and as all sorts of manufacture, so also malice increaseth by being vendible.

    Leviathan 2007

  • By this ransom is not intended a satisfaction for sin equivalent to the offence, which no sinner for himself, nor righteous man can ever be able to make for another: the damage a man does to another he may make amends for by restitution or recompense, but sin cannot be taken away by recompense; for that were to make the liberty to sin a thing vendible.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But as for the multitude of sermons ready printed and piled up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas in his vestry, and add to boot St. Martin and St. Hugh, have not within their hallowed limits more vendible ware of all sorts ready made: so that penury he never need fear of pulpit provision, having where so plenteously to refresh his magazine.

    Areopagitica 2007

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