as in marketable
fit to be offered for sale
a logging operation that strips an area of all of its trees, only a small percentage of which will yield merchantable timber
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Recent Examples of merchantable
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.
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Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 May 2021
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
If only one percent of those logs escaped and somehow eluded beachcombers, that means 100 million board feet of merchantable timber became driftwood each year.
—Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
Today, the land for sale has what's estimated to be 2 million board feet of merchantable timber.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 May 2021
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
If only one percent of those logs escaped and somehow eluded beachcombers, that means 100 million board feet of merchantable timber became driftwood each year.
—Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
Today, the land for sale has what's estimated to be 2 million board feet of merchantable timber.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchantable
Adjective
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Overall, Berkshire’s holdings of marketable securities dropped from $354 billion in 2023 to $272 billion at the end of 2024.—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Curry has been one of the NBA’s most marketable players for the past decade, and his off-court earnings got a bump last year under his latest long-term Under Armour contract extension.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Major oil and gas companies are profitable and have contributed significantly to atmospheric carbon emissions.—
Robert Rapier,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits.—
Brian Barrett,
WIRED,
20 Feb. 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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Archeologists also found valuable information beneath the Great Wall itself—two residences from the Zhou Dynasty at the northern excavation area.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
20 Feb. 2025
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These are valuable diplomatic offers given for free.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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However, gas prices are now more expensive than when gas was $3.127 per gallon a month ago.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Feb. 2025
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The United States is one of the most expensive countries for higher education.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Merchantable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchantable. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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