Find the word definition

Crossword clues for marketable

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marketable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ But would it really make him more marketable?
▪ The excuse that is far more marketable than truth.
▪ But in this keenly competitive world your crop may become more marketable the more information about it you supply.
■ NOUN
security
▪ The four major categories of cur-rent assets held by most firms are cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventory.
▪ Safety also implies that marketable securities will not be subject to excessive market fluctuations due to fluctuations in interest rates.
▪ In structuring a marketable securities portfolio, yield is generally considered far less important than safety or liquidity.
skill
▪ Even these unemployed young people contrast with their counterparts in the inner-city areas in having potentially marketable skills and qualifications.
▪ The duties of employment interviewers in job service centers differ somewhat because applicants may lack marketable skills.
▪ Do the jobless have marketable skills or obsolete training?
▪ Apprenticeships and other programs with clear, competency-based standards provide students with real, marketable skills and a credential when they graduate.
▪ The reality is that we all have marketable skills such as writing, speaking, consulting, or designing and selling things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Too many graduates lack marketable skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Do the jobless have marketable skills or obsolete training?
▪ Hours once written off as commercially irrelevant were suddenly transformed into marketable time.
▪ I am a business man and I knew how marketable he was.
▪ The distribution of marketable wealth among the population is skewed in favor of a minority.
▪ The duties of employment interviewers in job service centers differ somewhat because applicants may lack marketable skills.
▪ The excuse that is far more marketable than truth.
▪ The figures on marketable wealth exclude the value of occupational pensions which can not normally be sold.
▪ The reality is that we all have marketable skills such as writing, speaking, consulting, or designing and selling things.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marketable

Marketable \Mar"ket*a*ble\, a.

  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayed provisions are not marketable.

  2. Current in market; as, marketable value.

  3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marketable

c.1600, from market (v.) + -able. Related: Marketably; marketability.

Wiktionary
marketable

a. 1 Of or pertaining to marketability; capable of being marketed. 2 saleable (of goods) or employable (of people)

WordNet
marketable
  1. adj. in demand by especially employers; "marketable skills" [syn: in demand(p)]

  2. fit to be offered for sale; "marketable produce" [syn: merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible]

  3. capable of being marketed; "the marketable surplus"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "marketable".

Cayce, with her marketable allergy, has been brought over to do in person the thing that she does best.

Claims could be filed on 320 acres of land, providing it was nonirrigable, unreserved, and unappropriated, and contained no marketable timber.

When the dogmas about Islam cannot serve, not even for the most Panglossian Orientalist, there is recourse to an Orientalized social-science jargon, to such marketable abstractions as elites, political stability, modernization, and institutional development, all stamped with the cachet of Orientalist wisdom.

At first glance this might not seem a particularly marketable talent, let alone one that had made me a fortune in just a couple of years, but it was just what the Taurians needed.

These wonderful goods have no marketable value whatever in France, in England, in Germany, and throughout the north of Europe generally, but, in revenge, the inhabitants of those countries indulge in knavish practices of a much worse kind.

He gathers up all the old oyster and sardine cans that white people throw away, and procures marketable tin and solder from them by melting.

Marketable job skills are of paramount importance to the self sufficiency and survivability of Alumni.

If you can find a useful job for something that multiplies like crazy and lives on fungi or slime, you have a marketable bioproduct.

But I've got one marketable talent-what the interviewer called a peculiarly coordinative affinity for multiplex circuitry.

In fact," Jaxom said with a slightly wicked grin, "if Toric gave Idarolan the word, Denol's marketable goods could be collected and sold north, and the profit credited to Toric!

Their games using sEdl counters to represent the marketable Acoma trade goods would no longer clutter the breakfast nook off the pantry.

Their games using shell counters to represent the marketable Acoma trade goods would no longer clutter the breakfast nook off the pantry.

I know, for instance, that you have something over a million dollars in marketable securities in your brokerage account, so you can afford to invest in Albacore.

There one might legitimately scrape up acquaintance with notables, so as later to be in a favorable position to offer them modest sums for their hand-corrected proofs, typescripts (a surprising number of science-fiction writers still refused to process their words), autographed first editions, or literary curiosa of a marketable sort.

And the debris from their weapons of destruction was so massive that we have used it as a raw resource and are refabricating it into marketable goods.