salable

British  

/ ˈseɪləbəl /

adjective

1. the US spelling of saleable

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Explanation

Anything that's salable can realistically be sold. To make your old bike salable, you should probably replace the broken chain and paint over the rusty spots. If you want to make a little extra money at the craft fair, you'll have to come up with some salable crafts. And if your club's bake sale is going to be a success, you'll all have to contribute enough salable cupcakes and cookies. The difference between something that's salable and something that isn't is that people would realistically want to buy the salable item.

Example Sentences

Mr. Mandelson was copied on the message, and forwarded it to Epstein, who asked: “What salable assets?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The hope was to make China’s supercomputers less smart and its smartphones less salable.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

One editor wrote to Mr. Lord: “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a salable one nor even, I think, a good one.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2022

Flippers buy properties that need lots of work to get them in salable condition.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2021

But by the end of the year he knows he hasn’t produced a salable drawing.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman