merchantable
Americanadjective
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Origin of merchantable
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of the land acquired during the past decade has been lumbered land, and has contained little merchantable timber.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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