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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
Building New Skills and Professional Growth Engaging in different types of work allows for the development of a diverse skill set, which can make an employee more marketable and better equipped for career advancement.
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William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The company exited its fiscal Q4 with roughly $157 billion in cash, equivalents, and marketable securities on the balance sheet.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
Burton's aesthetic is so distinct that it’s become marketable, both cinematically and for a bevy of tie-in products.
—Joshua Rivera, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
Unlike other fruit and vinegar flies, which lay eggs on overripe or rotting fruit, the SWD does its thing inside the fresh stuff, compromising what would otherwise be a marketable product, according to Cornell.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 Sep. 2024
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William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The company exited its fiscal Q4 with roughly $157 billion in cash, equivalents, and marketable securities on the balance sheet.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
Burton's aesthetic is so distinct that it’s become marketable, both cinematically and for a bevy of tie-in products.
—Joshua Rivera, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
Unlike other fruit and vinegar flies, which lay eggs on overripe or rotting fruit, the SWD does its thing inside the fresh stuff, compromising what would otherwise be a marketable product, according to Cornell.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 Sep. 2024
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The company plans to be profitable by year three, if not sooner.Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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But when a brand starts to give an e-commerce player 30 to 35 percent of its margin, that e-commerce player cannot be profitable.Samantha Conti, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, stocks and other risk assets continue to paint a rosy picture of the outlook for economic growth and corporate profits.Bill Stone, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Starboard is a top operational and corporate governance activist.Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2024
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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
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And the company’s privacy policies make clear that in the event of a merger or an acquisition, customer information is a salable asset.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
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In some cases, the apps can also identify unmanned aircraft, such as commercial drones that are signaling their location the same way planes do.Clare Duffy, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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He was charged with guiding the league through a restructuring, which included centralizing the league’s television and commercial rights and operations.Paul Tenorio, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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That conversation was emblematic of Bonderman’s trust in people—and his understanding that relationships are far more valuable than transactions.Marc Stad, TIME, 16 Dec. 2024
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The master plan recognizes that college degrees still provide a valuable path for financial stability.Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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For several reasons, peak electricity is more expensive for OUC to generate than off-peak electricity.Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Under the innovative deal, led by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Barbados replaced some of its most expensive sovereign debt with a lower cost loan.Amy Feldman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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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 Dec. 2024.
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