Definitions

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

  • adjective Suitable for buying and selling; marketable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Suitable for trade or sale; salable.
  • Specifically, inferior to the best or “selected” quality, but sufficiently good for ordinary purposes: as, merchantable wheat or timber.—
  • The highest of the three grades into which codfish that have been salted, washed, and dried are sorted.

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

  • adjective Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; ; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

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

  • adjective Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

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

  • adjective fit to be offered for sale

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Examples

  • Indies; they are divided into two sorts; one called merchantable, and the other Jamaica fish.

    Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

  • Express warranty guarantees the buyer gets what he paid for: The box contains what its packaging says it contains or what the salesman said it contained; and implied warranty guarantees the buyer the product is "merchantable": It meets all industry standards and will do what other products of its type do.

    unknown title 2009

  • Express warranty guarantees the buyer gets what he paid for: The box contains what its packaging says it contains or what the salesman said it contained; and implied warranty guarantees the buyer the product is "merchantable": It meets all industry standards and will do what other products of its type do.

    unknown title 2009

  • "merchantable," that is, salable, timber according to present standards.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • Well I'd really prefer a refund, plus ... time to bring on that old chestnut ... the goods are not of merchantable quality.

    The cat's leg, my skirt and a vacuum cleaner. 2008

  • Well I'd really prefer a refund, plus ... time to bring on that old chestnut ... the goods are not of merchantable quality.

    The cat's leg, my skirt and a vacuum cleaner. 2008

  • The court found that the drug was "not reasonably fit" for relieving arthritis pain and "not of merchantable quality" as it approximately doubled the risk of heart attack in patients.

    Australian Judge Holds Merck Liable Bill Lindsay 2010

  • Well I'd really prefer a refund, plus ... time to bring on that old chestnut ... the goods are not of merchantable quality.

    47 entries from February 2008 2008

  • The court found that the drug was "not reasonably fit" for relieving arthritis pain and "not of merchantable quality" as it approximately doubled the risk of heart attack in patients.

    Australian Judge Holds Merck Liable Bill Lindsay 2010

  • The court found that the drug was "not reasonably fit" for relieving arthritis pain and "not of merchantable quality" as it approximately doubled the risk of heart attack in patients.

    Australian Judge Holds Merck Liable Bill Lindsay 2010

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