workable
practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
capable of or suitable for being worked.
Origin of workable
1Other words from workable
- work·a·bil·i·ty, work·a·ble·ness, noun
- un·work·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·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 DiegoThat’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 LandThis 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 LandI’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 PostWhile 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 JenkinsMankind has gone into these experiments hopefully, trustingly, blindly, without any guarantee of their workability.
The Next Step | Scott NearingOpinions 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) EscottReality 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
/ (ˈwɜːkəbəl) /
practicable or feasible
able to be worked
Derived forms of workable
- workability or workableness, noun
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