marketable

[ mahr-ki-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. readily saleable.
2. of or relating to selling or buying:

   marketable values; marketable areas.

ˈmarketable

/ ˈmɑːkɪtəbəl /

adjective

1. of commodities, assets, etc
   1. being in good demand; saleable
   2. suitable for sale
2. of or relating to buying or selling on a market

   marketable value

Derived Forms

• ˈmarketably, adverb
• ˌmarketaˈbility, noun

Other Words From

• market·a·bili·ty market·a·ble·ness noun
• market·a·bly adverb
• nonmar·ket·a·bili·ty noun
• non·market·a·ble adjective noun
• un·market·a·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of marketable¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; market + -able

Example Sentences

For those who grow up around upper-middle-class office jargon, the jump from regular person to marketable online celebrity is a bit more natural, and that divide can be felt along racial lines.

From Vox

If you can create across several apps, that makes you more marketable.

From Digiday

The problem is that this utopia of creating that perfect ABM strategy doesn’t exist if the data provided from these platforms isn’t marketable or the accounts aren’t ready to engage.

From Search Engine Land

Without a trace of self-pity, she explains that she just didn’t think that what she had going on was “marketable,” motioning to her body.

From Washington Post

It also helps you ensure compliance with privacy policies and provides the capability to ensure your data is complete and marketable.

From Search Engine Land

Spirituality, after all, is not as marketable as sex appeal, so maybe the media-savvy McCarthy is exposing a true vulnerability.

From The Daily Beast

Since then, blogging has become much less personal and a lot more marketable.

From The Daily Beast

The inexperienced Maréchal–Le Pen is poised to be the junior, if more marketable, face in the National Front's legislative duo.

From The Daily Beast

As Wible puts it, “complex storylines”—plot arcs “spread out over many comics”—have to be distilled down to marketable basics.

From The Daily Beast

Once you make others your subject, and their suffering a marketable tool, you are no longer concerned about them but yourself.

From The Daily Beast

Poverty had been good to her; it had put her woman's talent to the test, justifying its existence, proving it a marketable thing.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1899 it was proposed to sell all the marketable timber on this tract, and an offer of $3,000.00 was obtained.

From Project Gutenberg

We know that vice, like every other marketable commodity, will be offered for sale in all great public assemblages.

From Project Gutenberg

Every superadded accomplishment is put on with the distinct understanding that its sole use is to make the goods more marketable.

From Project Gutenberg

Ladies, with the smallest means at their command, reared marketable chickens, and sold their own marmalade and cakes.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bankable
• profitable