bankable
Americanadjective
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acceptable for processing by a bank.
bankable checks and money orders.
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considered powerful, prestigious, or stable enough to ensure profitability.
Without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest.
adjective
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appropriate for receipt by a bank
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dependable or reliable
a bankable promise
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(esp of a star) likely to ensure the financial success of a film
Other Word Forms
- bankability noun
- nonbankable adjective
- unbankable adjective
- unbankableness noun
- unbankably adverb
Etymology
Origin of bankable
Example Sentences
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Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
So the creative team instead relied on other selling points — namely, a hit filmmaker and a bankable star.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was once described as having the face of a truck driver, but became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
Concurrently, movies focused on white stories to avoid anti-miscegenation laws, not to mention white performers were seen as more bankable, especially to white audiences.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2024
At least nine out of ten of the applicants are virtually without bankable credit of any kind.
From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Barnard, Charles Inman
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