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purchasable

purchasable

1 2.8
Available to buy
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɜrʧəsəbl/
translation icon : disponible
  • Now these are purchasable items, they're over a grand if you can find them.

So our understanding is that they ship to consumers like retail purchasable.

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Examples

  • High-quality artwork is purchasable from the gallery downtown.

  • We know, for instance, that technology is purchasable anywhere.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Free or purchasable materials are available through sources cited elsewhere in this article.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Purchasable one episode at a time on iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon, or something like that.

    Blog text (1)
  • A grand miscellanea of steel-toed boots is purchasable in the market.

    Blog text (31)
  • New video games are purchasable at various online retailers.

  • The latest smartphone model is now easily purchasable through many local stores.

Synonyms

for sale
vspurchasable
209 1.0

Available for people to buy

is able to be bought even if not currently offered
tradable
vspurchasable
3 3.7

Can be bought or sold

is limited to being bought for money, not including exchange
sellable
vspurchasable
3 3.1

Good enough for people to want to buy

refers to being able to be bought, rather than likely to sell
merchandisable
vspurchasable
  • Jargon
1 5.1

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

means able to be bought but not focusing on marketing
vendible
vspurchasable
  • Specialized
8.9

People can sell it in shops and markets

is about being able to be bought rather than seller suitability
vendable
vspurchasable
6.8

Can be sold in shops

focuses on being able to be bought, not on market appeal
merchantable
vspurchasable
  • Formal
6.9

Good enough in quality to be sold

is about being able to be bought rather than meeting sale quality

Antonyms

81 3.4

Not able to be used, reached, or bought

How Available

common
797 1.0
available
2.3
purchasable
1 2.8
scarce
103 4.8
unavailable
81 3.4

Surface Forms

purchasable positive

Morphology

purchasable = purchase (transparent) = purchase + able

Direct and regular derivation from the verb 'purchase' with the productive adjectival suffix '-able' meaning 'capable of being bought'.

Etymology

The word purchasable comes from purchase (like the common word 'buy') plus the ending -able, which means 'can be'. So purchasable simply means 'can be bought' or 'available to buy'.