tradableadj.n.

1574 in State Papers Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 12/99) f. 83 A most ryche, frutefull, & tradeable place.

1599 Earl of Essex Let. to Queen Elizabeth 25 June in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 35 Your good subiects may haue for their mony out of your Maiesties store, that which..may serue for their necessary defence, whereas if once they be tradable, the Rebels will giue such extreme and excessiue prices, that they will neuer bee kept from them.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. i. i. 35 If once they be tradable, the Rebels will giue such extreme and excessiue prices, that they will neuer bee kept from them.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. vi. 25/2 One Ship..which they fraighted for England with the best part of their Tradable Estates.

1857 Harper's Mag. Aug. 425/1 Father Taylor says he wants religion...It's not tradable, but if it could be sold, Jack might want that too.

1873 W. F. Butler Wild North Land xviii. 217 Had his head been tradeable as a matter of fur, I believe they would have trapped him to a certainty.

1920 Oil & Gas News 16 Dec. 25/1 An exchange bureau for the transfer of every tradable item.

1979 B. Brown Money Hard & Soft on Internat. Currency Markets 2 Residents of the country of issue are permitted to buy and sell a freely tradable currency for foreign exchange.

2010 M. Lewis Big Short viii. 190 No judge in any court of law would side with his decision to side-pocket what was clearly a tradable security.

1893 Morning Post 22 July 6/3 Until fine Ceylons fell to a tradeable price they were neglected.

1922 N.Y. Tribune 29 Jan. ii. 1/1 Of other things of tradable value there is no surplus.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. 4/1 For good milling qualities around 25s per cwt, delivered, was the tradeable basis.

2007 J. Raven Business of Bks. x. 317 The tradable value of copyrights.

1921 Washington Post 18 Dec. ii. 2/1 Taking with her some money and tradables.

1966 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 74 226/2 Effective protection rates of tradables.

2011 D. Rodrik in C. Calhoun & G. Derluguian Aftermath iii. 89 It is desirable for policies in all developing countries to promote the production of tradables since it is economically efficient for a larger share of the world's tradables to be produced in those nations.

1968 Western Econ. Jrnl. 6 323 Tradable sectors use nontradable inputs.

1975 Accountancy Sept. 32/2 It [sc. government spending] signifies a transfer of resources from the tradeable to the non-tradeable sector, which would literally kill the productive section of the economy.

2011 M. Spence Next Convergence x. 65 A country..specializes in what it is comparatively good at producing for the global market in the tradable sector.

1903 Single Tax Rev. Apr. 2 To say that it has a certain value is only to say that it has a certain degree of tradability.

1983 Times 16 Aug. 14/1 The BNOC argument is that Brent crude has a higher ‘tradability’.

2011 M. Konings Devel. Amer. Finance x. 115 The liquidity..rested not on any characteristics of the asset itself, but derived entirely from its marketability and tradability.