workable
Americanadjective
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practicable or feasible.
He needs a workable schedule.
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capable of or suitable for being worked.
adjective
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practicable or feasible
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able to be worked
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer cautioned that they would have to become “both workable and a lasting proposal.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But that depends on a workable U.S.-Iran agreement which still seems murky.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
But that depends on a workable U.S.-Iran agreement which still seems murky.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The president also announced that the two were “very far along with a definitive” deal and called Tehran’s 10-point proposal “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
But the work stalled; the connection between genes and pigments was far too complicated to yield a workable hypothesis.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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