merchantable
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Origin of merchantable
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Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.
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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.
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Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.
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A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.
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The probability, or often the practical certainty, of fire after the first cut, commonly determines lumbermen to leave no merchantable tree standing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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