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

  • adjective Capable of being severed or separated.
  • adjective Law Capable of being separated into legally distinct rights or obligations that can be enforced independently, as in a contract where not all promises must be performed before legal action can be taken to enforce some portion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being severed.

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

  • adjective Capable of being severed.

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

  • adjective Capable of being severed.
  • adjective law, economics Capable of being separated.

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

  • adjective capable of being divided or dissociated

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