merchantable

[mur-chuhn-tuh-buhl]

adjective

Chiefly Law.

1. marketable.

   merchantable war-surplus goods.

merchantable

/ ˈmɜːtʃəntəbəl /

adjective

1. suitable for trading

Other Word Forms

• merchantableness noun
• unmerchantable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of merchantable¹

1475–85; earlier marchandabull. See merchant, -able

Example Sentences

“Most of the wood that is cut and felled is not merchantable,” he says.

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“There are limited roads and where the roads are, there’s not a lot of merchantable timber.”

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“Commercially merchantable timber was removed in large volume; small trees, slash and brush were left,” Plain resident Rich Haydon, a retired 31-year employee of the Forest Service, wrote in a declaration filed with the lawsuit.

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At 75 percent full, Stevenson said that Genscape considers Cushing to be operationally full with merchantable space extremely limited.

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He said the inability to cut merchantable timber on federal lands precipitated the Secure Rural Schools Act and is at the root of the problem.

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Related Words

• bankable 
• profitable