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
The company ended the year with $26.3 billion in cash and marketable securities.
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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
As of November 30, 2024, Sono-Tek had no outstanding debt and reported cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaling $12,681,000.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
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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
As of November 30, 2024, Sono-Tek had no outstanding debt and reported cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaling $12,681,000.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
Adjective
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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
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But if start-ups can become profitable without spending much, that could become a problem for venture capital investors, who allocate tens of billions to invest in A.I. start-ups.—
Erin Griffith,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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On-going price increases have prompted organizations like The People’s Union USA to push back on corporate America.—
Shelley E. Kohan,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Small businesses are closing, and corporate headquarters are leaving.—
Forrest Claypool,
Chicago Tribune,
23 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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The basilica was a part of the larger forum, which served in London as the political, judicial, commercial and social hub of the city.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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The achievement marks a potential turning point in commercial aviation’s decades-long quest to bring back faster-than-sound travel.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
18 Feb. 2025
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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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The Seeds of Love (1989) Tears For Fears took four years and spent over a million pounds (equivalent to roughly $4 million U.S. dollars in 2025) to record The Seeds of Love, a quirky and expensive follow up to a blockbuster in the tradition of Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
25 Feb. 2025
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To put that in perspective, his house would be more expensive than the biggest contract the White Sox have ever given out.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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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 1 Mar. 2025.
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