merchantable
- adjective
- /ˈmɜːrʧəntəbl/
- Formal
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comercializable
- Substantial tracts of second-growth forest (forests that have regrown without planting by people following cutting of the original old growth) with trees of merchantable size also exist.
Examples
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The company only sells products that are merchantable, ensuring customers receive high-quality items.
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The decision to maintain or restore forest structure or composition through thinning, prescribed burning, or wildland fire use may be a result of available financial support (e.g., available biomass, merchantable timber, or subsidy).
Academic text (2010) -
"Before long, all the large tracts of timber in this county, as well as those that reach over into the adjoining counties, will be a thing of the past, for the stately pines are now being cut, sawed into merchantable materials which are in turn made parts of the buildings of this country, some even going across the water," the Swainsboro Forest-Blade noted in 1915.
Academic text (2007) -
Before accepting the shipment, the retailer inspected the goods to confirm they were merchantable.
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Farmers are encouraged to produce merchantable crops that meet market standards for quality and size.
Synonyms
25
3.8
Able to be sold because many people want it
3
3.7
Can be bought or sold
3
3.1
Good enough for people to want to buy
2
4.0
Can be sold
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5.1
People can easily sell it as a product, often to fans and collectors
People can sell it in shops and markets
Can be sold in shops
Antonyms
How Marketable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Merchantable comes from merchant ('a person who sells goods') and the ending -able ('able to be'). So it literally means 'able to be sold', which is why we use it to say something is 'fit for sale'.