1
as in profitable
fit to be offered for sale
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
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as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale
trying to turn their invention into a marketable product
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Recent Examples of marketable
But the blanket Trump pay-to-quit offer–reportedly driven by Elon Musk–ignores a big risk: That the top performers, with the most marketable skills, will take the money and run.
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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
The company ended the year with $26.3 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025
This should be based on what makes your skills more marketable based on industry trends.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
In the extreme, GoFundMe can perversely encourage users to package their despair into marketable narratives.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
The company ended the year with $26.3 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025
This should be based on what makes your skills more marketable based on industry trends.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
In the extreme, GoFundMe can perversely encourage users to package their despair into marketable narratives.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
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His ratings have been profitable 53% of the time, delivering an average return of 10.3%.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
16 Mar. 2025
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Even profitable businesses can fail without enough cash to cover expenses.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Trump vowed to introduce a series of tax cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent for firms that produce their products in the U.S. and ending the taxation of tips and overtime wages for waiting staff and other service workers.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Di Santi will lead the bank’s strategic focus on serving the needs of professional teams, leagues, businesses and corporate partners throughout the sports industry.—
Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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While the viral video captures the unsettling reality of sudden turbulence, industry statistics highlight the overall safety of modern commercial flights.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The research suggests that situational awareness may emerge naturally as AI systems become more powerful and economically valuable.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Neither of those wideouts are superstars, but either would provide a valuable veteran presence.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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Renovations to make a home wheelchair-accessible or safe for someone with a visual impairment can be expensive.—
Andrew Lingelbach,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Mar. 2025
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Castillo would be expensive, in terms of money and the trade package, but his presence on the mound would be well worth it.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Qualifying timber must be merchantable, which is the market maker’s effort to ensure that offsets aren’t produced with trees that wouldn’t otherwise be cut.—
Ryan Dezember,
WSJ,
26 May 2021
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The beetle has devoured 18 million hectares of forest in British Columbia alone, killing 60 percent of its merchantable pine.—
Robinson Meyer,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2021
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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