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
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The company reported cash and cash equivalents of $121.3 million as of October 31, 2024, with marketable securities totaling $609.1 million.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
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While Ding technically succeeded Carlsen, the Norwegian remains the consensus best player in the world and the sport’s most marketable figure.Leon Watson, NBC News, 25 Nov. 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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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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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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But having the heater on most of the day can equal an expensive electrical bill.Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
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The cost was rumored to be around $1.5 billion, making Atlantis The Royal one of the most expensive hotels ever built.Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Merchantable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchantable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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