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

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. —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

Word History

First Known Use

1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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