serviceable

[ sur-vuh-suh-buhl ]

/ ˈsɜr və sə bəl /

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adjective

capable of or being of service; useful.

wearing well; durable: serviceable cloth.

capable of being used, worn, cleaned, repaired, etc., easily.

OTHER WORDS FOR serviceable

1 effective, usable, functional.

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Origin of serviceable

1300–50; service¹ + -able; replacing Middle English servisable<Middle French

OTHER WORDS FROM serviceable

serv·ice·a·bil·i·ty, serv·ice·a·ble·ness, nounserv·ice·a·bly, adverbnon·serv·ice·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·serv·ice·a·ble, adjective

non·serv·ice·a·ble·ness, nounnon·serv·ice·a·bly, adverbun·ser·vice·a·ble, adjectiveun·ser·vice·a·ble·ness, nounun·ser·vice·a·bly, adverb

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How to use serviceable in a sentence

We used our cameraman’s DSLR camera, my iPhone, and a podcasting microphone that was gathering dust and created a serviceable multi-camera rig.
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The hubs are fast-rolling, and the Vault freehub is user-serviceable, should the need arise.
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It’s astonishing that a team with such a strong recruiting tradition has been unable to find a serviceable option under center for so long.
Can The Miami Hurricanes Keep This Up?|Josh Planos|September 23, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
You perceive how a man might exercise his mind in the attempt to strike an average of public serviceability in this miscellany!
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells

Read your Nietzsche, my good fellow, and see what he says about the practical serviceability of Excess!
Gray youth|Oliver Onions
He has a sense of the merit of serviceability or efficiency and of the demerit of futility, waste, or incapacity.
The Theory of the Leisure Class|Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
The Theory of the Leisure Class|Thorstein Veblen
There is a studious exhibition of expensiveness coupled with a make-believe of simplicity and crude serviceability.
The Theory of the Leisure Class|Thorstein Veblen

British Dictionary definitions for serviceable

serviceable

/ (ˈsɜːvɪsəbəl) /

adjective

capable of or ready for service; usable

capable of giving good service; durable

archaic diligent in service

Derived forms of serviceable

serviceability or serviceableness, nounserviceably, adverb

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