redeemable

[ ri-dee-muh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being redeemed.
2. that will be redeemed:

   bonds redeemable in 10 years.

redeemable

/ rɪˈdɛmptəbəl; rɪˈdiːməbəl /

adjective

1. subject to cancellation by repayment at a specified date or under specified conditions
2. payable in or convertible into cash

Derived Forms

• reˌdeemaˈbility, noun
• reˈdeemably, adverb

Other Words From

• re·deema·bili·ty re·deema·ble·ness noun
• re·deema·bly adverb
• nonre·deema·ble adjective
• nonre·dempti·ble adjective
• unre·deema·ble adjective
• unre·deema·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of redeemable¹

First recorded in 1605–15; redeem + -able

Example Sentences

Gift cards, reservations and promotions remain active and redeemable.

From Los Angeles Times

“Lady in the Lake” plays differently on the screen than on the page — Maddie is a little more redeemable in the series than in the novel — and the myriad narrative voices in the book have given way to a dialogue of sorts between Maddie and Cleo.

From Los Angeles Times

"I don't understand it. I guess they get behind the kind of logic, they wanna f**k with people, screw them because they're unhappy with something. He's such a mean, nasty, hateful person. I'd never play him as an actor because I can't see any good in him. Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing redeemable in him."

From Salon

"I have tended to show humanity as fallible, sensitive, befuddled, misled but redeemable, rather than mindless, relentlessly violent," he wrote in his autobiography in 2004.

From BBC

In a Chancery Court complaint, attorneys for Haslam noted that an SEC filing by Berkshire last year listed Pilot Corp.’s “redeemable noncontrolling interest” in PTC at about $3.2 billion.

From Seattle Times