bankable
Americanadjective
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acceptable for processing by a bank.
bankable checks and money orders.
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considered powerful, prestigious, or stable enough to ensure profitability.
Without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest.
adjective
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appropriate for receipt by a bank
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dependable or reliable
a bankable promise
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(esp of a star) likely to ensure the financial success of a film
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Example Sentences
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Stalin is being challenged by C. Joseph Vijay, 51, one of India's most bankable actors, especially in Tamil regions.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Studio executives and theater operators chalk up the improved prospects to several factors, including a better and more plentiful crop of bankable movies that are giving consumers more reason to trek to the multiplex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
So the creative team instead relied on other selling points — namely, a hit filmmaker and a bankable star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Some of his friends, So-and-so—running over commercial and bankable names easily—have suggested the usual co-operation with some reputable house, and an extension, but he believes He will stay within limits.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
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