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workable

[wur-kuh-buh l]
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adjective
  1. practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  2. capable of or suitable for being worked.
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Origin of workable

First recorded in 1535–45; work + -able
Related formswork·a·bil·i·ty, work·a·ble·ness, nounun·work·a·bil·i·ty, nounun·work·a·ble, adjective, noun
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Historical Examples

  • 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

  • Mankind has gone into these experiments hopefully, trustingly, blindly, without any guarantee of their workability.

    The Next Step

    Scott Nearing

British Dictionary definitions for workability

workable

adjective
  1. practicable or feasible
  2. able to be worked
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Derived Formsworkability or workableness, noun
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Word Origin and History for workability

workable

adj.

1540s, from work (v.) + -able. Related: Workably.

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