marketable
Americanadjective
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readily saleable.
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of or relating to selling or buying.
marketable values; marketable areas.
adjective
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being in good demand; saleable
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suitable for sale
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of or relating to buying or selling on a market
marketable value
Other Word Forms
- marketability noun
- marketableness noun
- marketably adverb
- nonmarketability noun
- nonmarketable adjective
- unmarketable adjective
Etymology
Origin of marketable
Example Sentences
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Canadian production of marketable natural gas climbed 6.3% on-year, notching a third consecutive record high as domestic consumption and exports grew.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
If companies can find a way to produce these fuels at marketable prices similar to fossil fuels, it's obvious what kind of impact they could have.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
She fulfilled one label contract, renegotiated another and proved herself marketable enough to the general public to make her follow-up album, 2024’s “Brat,” without interference.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
To make Orinoco oil marketable, producers must blend it with lighter hydrocarbons, known as diluent, or upgrade it into a lighter synthetic crude using large industrial facilities.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
He hadn’t seen what he’d been doing for years—building computers, writing code, playing games, installing complicated software and operating systems—as something marketable or valuable, something that offered status or options in the larger society.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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