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marketable

marketable

25 3.8
Able to be sold because many people want it
  • adjective
  • /ˈmɑrkɪtəbl/
translation icon : comercializable
  • The new product has proven to be very marketable, attracting buyers from all demographics.
  • marketable product
  • marketable skills
  • marketable commodity

It's it's not a marketable, punchy, pushy type poster.

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Examples

  • Vocational education has provided opportunities and enabled many students to gain marketable skills that have led to meaningful employment.

    Academic text (1996)
  • We need to make you more marketable.

  • But it's definitely become a more marketable thing over this past four years, I think.

  • OK, how, how quickly do you think you are marketable to go get another job?

  • In order to keep his image marketable, Mark's agent had to act fast.

  • And I, I think a lot of training institutions and universities have been very slow to realize how necessary and marketable these skills are.

  • And then finally, the professional, it is never been easier or cheaper to develop marketable skill sets.

  • Simultaneously, these courses can benefit faculty research programs and can provide laboratory members with marketable skills.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Basil is one of the best selling and the most marketable herbs in the entire country, if not the entire world.

  • Physicists who work at startup companies create and improve marketable technologies.

    Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

sellable
vsmarketable
3 3.1

Good enough for people to want to buy

moreover implies that the quality or skill is actively desired
salable
vsmarketable
2 4.0

Can be sold

also indicates there is demand for products skills or personal qualities
merchandisable
vsmarketable
  • Jargon
1 5.1

People can easily sell it as a product, often to fans and collectors

is broader covering items or skills wanted beyond just store products
vendable
vsmarketable
6.8

Can be sold in shops

also suggests being wanted or in demand beyond mere offerability
vendible
vsmarketable
  • Specialized
8.9

People can sell it in shops and markets

often adds that something is wanted or has clear consumer demand
merchantable
vsmarketable
  • Formal
6.9

Good enough in quality to be sold

focuses on quality or legal suitability rather than being actively wanted

Antonyms

1 6.1

Hard to sell because buyers do not want it

Compounds

marketable yield
  • Specialized
4.2

Part of a crop that is good enough to sell

How Marketable

in demand
36 2.9
marketable
25 3.8
desirable
121 3.2
unsalable
6.5

Surface Forms

marketable positive
marketabler comparative
marketablest superlative

Morphology

marketable = market (transparent) = market + able

Formed by the productive adjective-forming suffix '-able' attached to 'market', meaning 'able to be sold' which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Marketable comes from market, a place to buy and sell goods, and the ending -able, which means 'can be' or 'suitable'. So something marketable is 'able to be sold' or wanted by buyers.