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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bankable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ Overseas, then, is where burgers have become most bankable.
▪ The Hollywood Reporter recently conducted a survey to find out who are the most bankable directors.
▪ Linda, Christy, Claudia, Naomi and Cindy are the world's most bankable beauties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Swayze has become a bankable star.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Combining reliable bankable items with the more extreme looks to keep the press happy is no easy matter.
▪ Linda, Christy, Claudia, Naomi and Cindy are the world's most bankable beauties.
▪ On independent advice, the syndicate of more than 200 banks appears to have decided Eurotunnel is no longer a bankable proposition.
▪ Overseas, then, is where burgers have become most bankable.
▪ The Hollywood Reporter recently conducted a survey to find out who are the most bankable directors.
▪ To do that, of course, he has to have some bankable names to star in it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bankable

Bankable \Bank"a*ble\ (b[a^][ng]k"[.a]*b'l), a. Receivable at a bank.

Wiktionary
bankable

a. 1 Acceptable to a bank. 2 Certain to bring profit and success (especially in the entertainment industry). 3 reliable

WordNet
bankable

  1. adj. guaranteed to bring a profit; "without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest"

  2. acceptable to or at a bank; "bankable funds"

Usage examples of "bankable".

He was in fact a wealthy businessman who owned a highly bankable avant-garde retail and design empire, two shops, a restaurant and a perfume about to be launched.

Somebody at Cold Spring Harbor mentioned to the journalist compiling the piece that if they were looking for bankable horses, there was a bright, young, single, obscure young man out in the Midwest who had initiated an interesting bit of work and who, word had it, was not entirely unphotogenic.

A killer behind bars, the Alvarez thing over, his past reconciled, a bankable profit for all, and Rosemary.

The biotech would need a lot of regulatory work, but even those were bankable if you knew they were real.

Livingston told us Alanna Brooks was a bankable star who could be guaranteed to pull the fans.

The only bankable certainties were that Amanda was on a hit list and her assassins knew where she worked.

I will require a means of making my share of the profit bankable and spendable, without attracting the attention of any government agency anywhere.

He was in fact a wealthy businessman who owned a highly bankable avant-garde retail and design empire, two shops, a restaurant and a perfume about to be launched.

I've worked up all the figures on it and I know what they have to come up with to make it bankable, and I worked up all the expenses they'll run into including the rezoning, and I had Jeanie run off a pie chart on the PC.

But the Bankable Star gets at least five percent of the rentals, the director and producer another five percent.