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marketable, a.|ˈmɑːkɪtəb(ə)l|
Also 7 markettable, mercatable.
[f. market v. + -able.]
1. Capable of being marketed; that may or can be bought or sold; suitable for the market; that finds a ready market; that is in demand; saleable.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. ii. 103 Ros. Then shal we be newes-cram'd. Cel. All the better: we shalbe the more Marketable. 1610― Temp. v. i. 266 Seb. Will money buy em? Ant. Very like: one of them Is a plaine Fish, and no doubt marketable. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iv. (1682) 7 They do transport their Marketable Commodities from one place to another. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 151 This Corn..proving Mercatable, is now become one of the commonest grains of this County. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman ii. (1841) I. 16 The goods are not of a marketable goodness. 1812Byron Waltz Ep., Our girls being come to a marriageable (or, as they call it, marketable) age. 1851G. Brimley Ess., Wordsworth 162 Unpossessed of any marketable talent. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 241 Such fat cattle as were up to the marketable standard.
2. Of or pertaining to buying or selling; concerned with trade. Of price, value: That may be obtained in buying or selling.
1602W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 3 If hee sende him to Fayres or Markets, to buy, to sell, or to doe other things markettable. 1690Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 91 Their goods unladen, and they are sent home with assurance of a marketable price for the same. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. xi. 186 Being calculated to reduce the marketable value of the true gem. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 298 To enlarge the marketable area by enfranchising other ports would violate the Navigation Act.
Hence ˌmarketaˈbility, ˈmarketableness, the condition or fact of being marketable.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) II. 65 The marketableness of our manufactures in foreign marts. 1877R. Giffen Stock Exch. Securities 89 The difference of marketability arising..from the greater mass of some securities than others. 1884Macm. Mag. Oct. 415/1 The marketability of land. |