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placeable

placeable

5.0
Suitable for a job or other position
  • adjective
  • /ˈpleɪsəbl/
translation icon : asignable
  • His extensive experience made him very placeable in any managerial role.

Examples

  • Sinick (in Power, 1991) makes a significant distinction: one is employable when one has the requisite skills and work personality necessary to perform the job, and one is placeable when one also has the ability to be perceived as attractive to the employer.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Being employable does not necessarily make one placeable.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The candidate was highly qualified and deemed placeable at multiple firms.

  • After the interview, she felt confident that she was placeable in that position.

Synonyms

employable
vsplaceable
6 3.5

A person who has skills and training to get and keep a regular job

is eligible for assignment to roles or locations rather than general job fitness
hireable
vsplaceable
3.4

Likely to be chosen for a job because of skills

is eligible for assignment to roles or locations rather than only job suitability
selectable
vsplaceable
4.2

Can be chosen for a team or job because of skill

is eligible for assignment regardless of whether selection occurs

Antonyms

unassignable
8.4

Cannot be given or sold to another person

How Suitable

ideal
203 4.2
placeable
5.0
suitable
172 1.8
unsuitable
20 2.6

Surface Forms

placeable positive

Morphology

placeable = place (transparent) = place + able

Productive derivation expressing suitability or eligibility to be assigned (i.e., 'able to be placed/assigned'), which is semantically regular.

Etymology

Placeable is made from place ('position' or 'job') and -able ('able to be'), so it can also mean 'suitable to be assigned to a position or role', like a candidate an agency can place in a job.