bankable

[ bang-kuh-buhl ]

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adjective

acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
considered powerful, prestigious, or stable enough to ensure profitability: Without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest.

Origin of bankable

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; bank² + -able

Other words from bankable

bank·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·bank·a·ble, adjective
un·bank·a·ble, adjective
un·bank·a·ble·ness, noun
un·bank·a·bly, adverb

Words Nearby bankable

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How to use bankable in a sentence

Those were also breakthrough films for Statham, who has since become one of the world's most bankable action stars.
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But her age—a tender 13 years—is nearing too old for a bankable model.
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Debts of thanks are almost never bankable and often make for resentments.
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Remaining among the very young at heart is how your next big, bankable idea springs to mind.
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Elsewhere in the game category, classic characters and bankable franchises reign.
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Will it make her husband Clifford bankable in Hollywood again?
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There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, No. 22, January, 1873 | Various
These are all paid in full once a fortnight in bankable money.
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Doing things for others may not bring in bankable dividends but it does bring in happiness.
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The same cupidity has given rise to two new terms in the miners' glossary,—trade dust and bankable dust.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 | Various
Many merchants even keep a saucer of black sand in readiness to dilute their bankable gold to the utmost thinness it will bear.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for bankable

bankable

/ (ˈbæŋkəbəl) /

adjective

appropriate for receipt by a bank
dependable or reliable: a bankable promise

(esp of a star) likely to ensure the financial success of a film

Derived forms of bankable

bankability, noun

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