sellable

adjective

Definition of sellablenext
as in marketable
fit to be offered for sale the abandoned house is not sellable in its current condition

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sellable
  1. marketable
  2. profitable
  3. valuable
  4. expensive
  5. salable
Adjective
  • Two months after the Uni gorged themselves on Udon noodles every day, the edible part of Uni grew from 4.8% to 17.5% on average, far above the marketable percentage of 10%.
    Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • As Black women in the spotlight, their value in society can also feel linked to their ability to remain marketable to an audience that doesn't view them in totality.
    Kia Turner, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of marketable
Adjective
  • Its ownership of the club already was probably profitable for the family.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The company expects five of its current local markets to be profitable this year.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of profitable
Adjective
  • Her work is both a bold act of advocacy and a call to action, addressing the systemic disparities in whose stories get told and whose lives are deemed valuable.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That land became much more valuable starting in 1959 when individual allotments were finalized and the Agua Caliente successfully negotiated with the federal government to lease their lands for up to 99 years.
    Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of valuable
Adjective
  • The Trump administration also expanded the use of short-term health insurance plans, which offered limited benefits and less expensive monthly premiums but denied coverage for existing medical conditions.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But art school was expensive, and his family could not really afford the classes — or even the supplies.
    Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of expensive
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of salable
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Thesaurus Entries Near sellable

sell a bill of goods to

sellable

sell down the river

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