marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl 

1

a

: fit to be offered for sale in a market

food that is not marketable

b

: wanted by purchasers or employers : salable

marketable securities

marketable skills

2

: of or relating to buying or selling

marketability

ˌmär-kə-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun

Synonyms

• merchantable
• salable
• saleable
• sellable

Examples of marketable in a Sentence

an employee with highly marketable skills

realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs

Recent Examples on the Web

Alphabet closed the year with $96 billion in cash and marketable securities. —Samantha Subin, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025

However, these countries must tempt risk-takers, requiring marketable deals and solid assurances. —Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025

Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content. —Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025

But starting around 1910, the raw material of Pyrenean meadows, the sheep’s milk itself, became nationally marketable. —Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for marketable

• unmarketable

Kids Definition

marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kət-ə-bəl 

1

: fit to be offered for sale

food that has gone bad is not marketable

2

: wanted by purchasers or employers

marketable skills

marketability

ˌmär-kət-ə-ˈbil-ət-ē 

noun

Legal Definition

marketable

adjective

mar·​ket·​able ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl 

1

: fit to be offered for sale : being such as may be justly or lawfully sold or bought

marketable goods

2

: wanted by buyers

marketable securities

marketability

ˌmär-kə-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun