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shippable

shippable

2.8
Can be sent to an address by mail or delivery service
  • adjective
  • /ˈʃɪpəbl/
translation icon : enviado
  • Because the materials are lightweight and durable, they are considered shippable without additional costs.

Examples

  • According to Mellian, the resulting preform has good structural integrity, which makes it readily shippable.

    Academic text (1996)

  • With the emergence of shippable, modular biorefineries, that leads to the possibility that agricultural cooperatives and large-scale food processors could market their own brand of biofuels to local customers.

    Blog text (20)

  • Look, the missions at the top of the board solve self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries.

  • That means we have to turn out a ton of shippable cryogenics every twenty-four hours.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The new packaging design makes our products much more shippable and attractive to retailers.

  • All items in the warehouse are checked to ensure they are shippable before dispatch.

Synonyms

deliverable
vsshippable
  • Jargon
3 5.3

Ready to be given or sent to a client

is about physical sending by carriers rather than project outputs
transportable
vsshippable
3 3.7

Able to be moved or carried from one place to another

is ready to be sent by carriers rather than only physically movable
postable
vsshippable
  • UK
4.1

Able to be sent by mail

is for sending via commercial carriers rather than the postal system

Surface Forms

shippable positive

Morphology

shippable = ship (transparent) = ship + able

Standard productive formation: verb 'ship' + suffix '-able' meaning 'able to be shipped', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word shippable comes from ship ('boat') and the ending -able ('can be'). So it originally meant 'can be sent by ship', and today it means 'able or ready to be sent by any delivery or shipping service'.