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ˈbankable, a. Orig. U.S.
[f. bank n.3 or v.2]
a. Receivable at a bank, as in ‘bankable securities’. Also fig.
1818M. & S. C. Austin Austin Papers (1924) 329 The money must be Bankable, as none other will do. 1832Register Deb. Congress 7 Mar. 204 A currency..perhaps not bankable at all places. Ibid., Any broker..would make it bankable any where in the Union. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 22 In New York, at auction sales, the auctioneer..invariably states, that the money must be bankable. 1921Collier's 19 Feb. 17/1 (heading) Good will a bankable asset. 1973Times 2 Mar. 18/6 This promise has been described as a ‘bankable assurance’. 1984Daily Tel. 7 Sept. 18/1 Mr Reid..tried, earlier this year, to insist on some bankable commitments to phase out surplus manning. 1985Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. d4/5 It is undeniable that after 17 years in England, there is something to be said for bankable sunshine.
b. spec. Of a business venture: certain to yield a profit; of a show-business personality: sufficiently famous to ensure the funding and ultimate success of a production.
1958A. O. Hirschman Strategy of Econ. Devel. x. 191 Entirely too much has been made of the argument that development is held back not by the scarcity of funds, but by a scarcity of ‘bankable’, i.e., well-conceived and engineered, projects. 1964Maclean's Mag. 2 Dec. 54/1 Julie Andrews..didn't have a bankable name at the time. 1968Look 6 Aug. 68/1 A bankable actor is one with whose name a producer can raise enough money to make a film. 1978Times 1 Sept. 6/1 Co-authored by Joe Eszterhas and its star, the bankable Sylvester Stallone, the film opens with a charged orchestral overture. 1979Economist 7 July 115 Sir Keith Joseph, as chief banker to BSC, will not bring forward proposals to parliament for a capital restructuring until the thing is bankable. 1985New Yorker 29 Apr. 61/3 Becoming highly bankable, Allen discovered, meant becoming instantly popular with incipient entrepreneurs. 1985–6Sight & Sound Winter 26/2 With the success of darts on television, surely there's a bankable film here. |