saleableadj.
/ˈseɪləb(ə)l/ 1. in combination.1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 233 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV To cut good, salable-sized potatoes for seed.in extended use.1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare Concl. sig. HHh4v As for your Eloquence,..as it serueth wel, to make the mater more salehable in the sight of the simple, so [etc.].† b. On sale, for sale. Obsolete. rare.
a. Capable of being sold; fit for sale; commanding an easy or ready sale. Also absol. or as quasi-n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold
sellablea1382
vendiblec1384
vendablec1400
sale-worthyc1440
market-like1473
sale-worth1481
venable1507
saleable1530
marketable1577
utterable1581
chapmanable1594
selling1770
tenderable1868
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 323/1 Saleable, vendible.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. F.iiv Wyne that is saleable and good nedeth no bushe.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 66 That which in England is not saleable, doth passe here amongst them for most excellent.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 219 His book..had been more salable, if more conformed to our modern language.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 27 Being at a loss what to do with my crop, which was not saleable in my neighbourhood.
1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 127 Upon a contract for the purchase of goods..there is an implied warranty on the part of the seller, that they shall be of a quality saleable in the market.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. vi. 189 A horse saleable at three hundred guineas.
1881 Times 29 Jan. 11 Grenada Cocoa is more readily salable than other qualities.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 144 After..the saleable lambs and draft ewes have been disposed of.
1945 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Aug. 8/7 Five hundred salables were offered and 2,500 went directly to packers.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Jan. 10-O/2 Salables amounted to 2,500 head, compared with 5,000 head marketed a week ago.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale
to set on (or a) sale1546
vendible1552
saleable1599
venal1662
on (also in) the market1776
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 115 They were content to let it be translated.., as also some number of Copies to be saleable a while at the beginning.
c. Said of the price which an article will fetch.
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1779 Ann. Reg. 1778 186 Divers goods to the saleable value of 172l.
1881 H. George Progress & Poverty vii. iii. 327 If the land belong to the people, why.. should the people pay its salable value for their own?
2. Venal, mercenary. Now rare or Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > able to be bribed
corrupt1393
wager1567
saleable1579
of sale1598
sale1604
vendible1609
shop-likea1637
emptitious1650
sellable1650
venal1670
bribable1724
on the take1930
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 765 The corruptions of men salable would not be sufficient to transport thempire from the Germaine nation to the house of Fraunce.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 458 We finde the Alman, in his Fight couragious, But salable.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 172 Saint Paul eloquently defended his innocence, against the salable tongue of Tertullus.
1798 E. Inchbald Lovers' Vows v. i Tell him, my honour has never been saleable.
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