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merchantable

American  
[mur-chuhn-tuh-buhl] / ˈmɜr tʃən tə bəl /

adjective

Chiefly Law.
  1. marketable.

    merchantable war-surplus goods.


merchantable British  
/ ˈmɜːtʃəntəbəl /

adjective

  1. suitable for trading

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of merchantable

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


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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.

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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.

From Time Magazine Archive

In order to render the iron which has undergone this process merchantable, it is subjected to the third of the operations which we have enumerated.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

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