bankable
[bang-kuh-buh l]
- 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.
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Origin of bankable
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Contemporary Examples
But her age—a tender 13 years—is nearing too old for a bankable model.
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Remaining among the very young at heart is how your next big, bankable idea springs to mind.
Elsewhere in the game category, classic characters and bankable franchises reign.
Will it make her husband Clifford bankable in Hollywood again?
Historical Examples
These are all paid in full once a fortnight in bankable money.
The Impending Crisis of the SouthHinton Rowan Helper
The same cupidity has given rise to two new terms in the miners' glossary,—trade dust and bankable dust.
Many merchants even keep a saucer of black sand in readiness to dilute their bankable gold to the utmost thinness it will bear.
Notes were usually made to pay a given number of "dollars, in good, bankable dust."
There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.
bankable
- appropriate for receipt by a bank
- dependable or reliablea bankable promise
- (esp of a star) likely to ensure the financial success of a film
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