Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Offered or suitable for sale; marketable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being sold; purchasable; hence, finding a ready market; in demand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
saleable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being sold; fit for sale
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Examples
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So let your imagination go; so what if whatever you produce isn't what I'd call salable?
Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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At that stage, everything will be done with production equipment and tooling and these are the first so-called salable vehicles.
Autoblog Green 2009
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The same Ingersoll, Ontario assembly plant that built the previous Equinox began building so-called salable units about two months ago.
Autoblog 2009
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At that stage, everything will be done with production equipment and tooling and these are the first so-called salable vehicles.
Autoblog Green 2009
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Don't throw them away even if they aren't "salable".
Archive 2006-06-25 Miss Snark 2006
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They tried to get some kind of salable cargo for each one, without depriving themselves of what they needed for themselves.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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In the next two to three weeks, General Motors will start building so-called "salable" Volts which will go into the captured test fleet for GM employees to accumulate miles and catch any last minute glitches before the cars enter full production in November.
Autoblog Green 2010
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In order to secure representation, you must first have a salable manuscript (edited and polished to perfection).
How do I get an editor or a literacy agent? « Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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For the Union Pacific it figured out to ten square miles of salable land for every mile of track.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Students are the best judges of their teachers whom they see all day five days a week just as customers of any salable item evaluate their satisfaction or disappointment with their purchase.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Let Students Fire the Teachers - A Modest Proposal Joel Shatzky 2012
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