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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
obtainable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
▪ The old county histories contain interesting material, sometimes with plans and drawings not easily obtainable elsewhere.
▪ My Mom took a job as a nursing orderly in a mental hospital where sleeping pills and tranquillisers were easily obtainable.
▪ If atropine it was, it was easily obtainable in extract of belladonna.
▪ All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres.
▪ Attention was given to materials not easily obtainable in Northern Ireland - pamphlets, monographs, unpublished theses etc.
▪ The following passages, taken from well-known or easily obtainable piano music, are suggested as exercises in scoring for string orchestra.
▪ Cover is easily obtainable for customers who apply now and are eligible for the Plan.
▪ I chose Tufa which is cheap and easily obtainable and quite a good substitute for real coral rock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Radon gas can be detected using an easily obtainable device.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And these latter values are very much higher than the values obtainable on the old system.
▪ He said that he felt that its terms were the best obtainable under the circumstances.
▪ However, a simple and powerful canonical form is obtainable.
▪ I analysed them and found that a material had been used which is only obtainable in Iron Curtain countries.
▪ Now a college education was a realistic and obtainable goal for young blacks.
▪ The goods became obtainable, but not purchasable, because of the lack of purchasing power among the population.
▪ The old county histories contain interesting material, sometimes with plans and drawings not easily obtainable elsewhere.
▪ This is largely because of the limitations on the specific impulse obtainable from chemical means.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obtainable

Obtainable \Ob*tain"a*ble\, a. Capable of being obtained.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obtainable

1610s, from obtain + -able. Related: Obtainability.

Wiktionary
obtainable

a. capable of being obtained or procured.

WordNet
obtainable

adj. capable of being obtained; "savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable" [syn: gettable, getable, procurable]

Usage examples of "obtainable".

If, indeed, the value of logical systems were to be judged of by the results obtainable, formal deductive Logic would probably be superseded.

As murder weapons go, the lowly tire iron has the virtue of being genderless and easily obtainable.

Though they strained their eyes and spoke with bated breath, never a sight of boat or canoes was obtainable for hours after the latter were swallowed up by the trees which shrouded the creek at the foot of Guanaco Hill.

They are illustrated in colour by Norman Lindsay, Hal Gye and Lionel Lindsay, and are obtainable from all Booksellers, Bookstalls and Newsagents in Australia and New Zealand.

The worthy man spent two hours with me, without saying a word on the subject of literature, but to please me he had no need to talk of books, for he was a disciple of Epicurus and Socrates, and the evening was spent in telling little stories, in bursts of laughter, and in accounts of the various kinds of pleasure obtainable at Geneva.

These little billets-doux were written in a solution of pyramidon, a powder often used as a headache cure and readily obtainable at most pharmacies.

As practiced it was pretty much under the control of the different religious denominations and the information obtainable about inks from these sources is but fragmentary.

Indian chutney, cottage cheese, gooseberry jam, gingerbread, a cheese slipover consisting of a deep-dish apple pie with a Welsh rabbit melted over it, lobster stuffed and baked, broccoli Parmesan, crisp endive with Roquefort dressing, baked Alaska, coffee with grated orange peel and a clove, a Bacardi swizzle and a bottle of Fiora del Alpina, with a cashew nut to nibble and any other expensive or out of season comestibles obtainable or not.

When I was at Valentia, a good bottle of wine was scarcely obtainable, though Malaga and Alicante were both close at hand.

So the Pentagon scoured the long-forgotten series of deferments and scores of young unattached, childless lawyers obtainable meat were sent unrefusable invitations in which was explained the meaning of the word "deferment" as opposed to the word "annulment.

Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice.

Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice.

It's a nerve poison that is extracted from plants that are only obtainable from planets belonging to a Delta-Cepheid variable type sun.

Unfortunately for everybody who lived, loved, ate, slept, and shit in Sunrise Valley, Daisy Cutters could also be assembled at home out of readily obtainable ingredients.

Such bowls, frequently used in magick, are often obtainable cheaply from car boot or garage sales.