announceableadj.n.
/əˈnaʊnsəbl/, U.S. /əˈnaʊnsəb(ə)l/, Australian English /əˈnæɔnsəb(ə)l/, Canadian English /əˈnʌʊnsəb(ə)l/ A. adj.
That can be announced; that deserves to be the subject of an announcement.
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1831 J. Banim Smuggler I. xi. 170 The third of Mrs. Simmons's guests..is announceable as Butcher Fell, or Preacher Fell, indifferently.
1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. xix. 326 A..dull..middle-aged dinner, involving for the most part very bland, though very exalted, immensely announceable..couples.
1986 A. Warhol Diary 26 Apr. (1989) 728 Arnold gave a speech and was saying wonderful love things like that he'd make her happy. It was the first time I've seen really announceable love, saying everything out loud.
2006 Financial Times 3 Apr. 21/4 We have exploratory discussions, but we have no announceable deals.
B. n.
Politics colloquial (chiefly Australian and Canadian). A piece of news or information whose announcement is considered advantageous; esp. a policy, initiative, etc., announced by a government in order to attract good publicity. Usually in plural.
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1992 Ottawa Citizen 24 July a4/5 With an election expected in the next year, departments are being asked to identify cost-cutting measures and serve them up to the public as ‘announceables’.
2009 Internat. Affairs 62 30 Our foreign assistance is the sum of often competing sector imperatives or initiatives driven by the need for an ‘announceable’—a new program or initiative to announce, which marks a significant event, trip or donor meeting.
2021 Brisbane Times (Nexis) 2 Apr. The federal government has seen the vaccine rollout not as a public health program but as a political issue... The focus has been on announceables and good news stories.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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