workable

[ wur-kuh-buhl ]

/ ˈwɜr kə bəl /

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adjective

practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.

capable of or suitable for being worked.

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Origin of workable

First recorded in 1535–45; work + -able

OTHER WORDS FROM workable

work·a·bil·i·ty, work·a·ble·ness, nounun·work·a·bil·i·ty, nounun·work·a·ble, adjective, noun

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How to use workable in a sentence

City officials have said the deals Shapery presented simply weren’t workable – and were too costly.
How a Volunteer Helped Get the City Into Its Biggest Real Estate Debacle|Lisa Halverstadt|January 29, 2021|Voice of San Diego
This workable solution would see Google pay publishers through News Showcase, a licensing program with nearly 450 news partners globally.
Google might remove search in Australia if forced to pay to link to sites|Barry Schwartz|January 22, 2021|Search Engine Land
That’s a worst-case scenario and the last thing we want to have happen—especially when there is a way forward to a workable Code that allows us to support Australian journalism without breaking Search.
Google might remove search in Australia if forced to pay to link to sites|Barry Schwartz|January 22, 2021|Search Engine Land
I’ve made hot drinks over both models, and each of them is workable.
This cocktail can keep you warm around the fire pit — and you can make it there, too|M. Carrie Allan|November 20, 2020|Washington Post

While those considerations are daunting, I suspect that manufacturers and the FDA could create workable responses.
Covid-19 vaccines shouldn’t get emergency-use authorization|Amy Nordrum|November 13, 2020|MIT Technology Review
It could be put back into such workability as it had once possessed with practically no trouble.
Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Mankind has gone into these experiments hopefully, trustingly, blindly, without any guarantee of their workability.
The Next Step|Scott Nearing
Opinions vary as to the workability of this clause in the shape in which it left the Lords.
Social Transformations of the Victorian Age|T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Reality was a jungle in which Reason had to cope with Unreason, and there was no criterion except workability.
Ye of Little Faith|Roger Phillips Graham

British Dictionary definitions for workable

workable

/ (ˈwɜːkəbəl) /

adjective

practicable or feasible

able to be worked

Derived forms of workable

workability or workableness, noun

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