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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redeemable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another example is that of index linked loans which may be redeemable at the principal amount multiplied by an index.
▪ Dean Mansfield says the ticket price is redeemable and he hopes to claim most of it back from the airline.
▪ In addition, or alternatively, they may be redeemable, thus promising cash from the company at a future date.
▪ It is issued to passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed and is redeemable by the airlines at face value.
▪ Manufacturers' coupons are redeemable in any store that accepts them.
▪ Preference shares, particularly redeemable preference shares, are sometimes considered to be more akin to loan stock than share capital.
▪ Stamps are redeemable for merchandise or cash.
▪ Tickets are £3, redeemable against any purchase.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redeemable

Redeemable \Re*deem"a*ble\ (-?*b;l), a.

  1. Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.

  2. Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc., redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redeemable

1610s, from redeem + -able.

Wiktionary
redeemable

a. 1 Capable of being redeemed; able to be restored or recovered. 2 (context finance English) Capable of being pay off; subject to a right on the part of the debtor to discharge or of an issuer to repurchase; as, a '''redeemable''' annuity or '''redeemable''' preferred stock. 3 Susceptible to correction or reform.

WordNet
redeemable

  1. adj. recoverable upon payment or fulfilling a condition; "redeemable goods in a pawnshop"

  2. able to be converted into ready money; "a cashable check"; "cashable gambling chips"; "redeemable stocks and bonds" [syn: cashable]

  3. susceptible to improvement or reform; "a redeemable sinner" [syn: reformable]

Usage examples of "redeemable".

That if any part of the national debt, incurred before last Michaelmas, redeemable by law, and carrying an interest of four per centum, should remain unsubscribed on or before the thirtieth day of May, the government should pay off the principal.

Government and in the form of legal-tender paper redeemable only with bonds bearing a low rate of interest, these bonds in turn to be convertible into greenbacks at the option of the holder.

This makes you eligible to win an unlimited number of brightly colored redeemable plates embossed with precoded symbols.

The South Vietnamese really only needed pep talks and fine tuning, but the redeemable commies -- Northerners that we thought might be able to influence the diehard Reds back home -- they needed out-and-out conversion and hypnagogic reinforcement.

By the second act, the Bank received a lower rate of interest for the sum of 1,775,027 pounds 15 shillings due to it by the state, and agreed to deliver up to be cancelled as many Exchequer bills as amounted to two millions sterling, and to accept of an annuity of one hundred thousand pounds, being after the rate of five per cent, the whole redeemable at one year's notice.

A paid Welcome Wagon employee--usually a middle-aged lady--visits the newcomers, answers questions about the community, and leaves behind brochures and, sometimes, inexpensive gift certificates redeemable at local stores.