bankable

English

Etymology

From bank +‎ -able.

Adjective

bankable (comparative more bankable, superlative most bankable)

1. Acceptable to a bank.

   a bankable check

2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.

   a bankable film star

   • 2009 July 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Bibliovision”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The literary life evidently suits [Laura] Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV’s most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality.

3. Reliable.

Derived terms

• bankability
• nonbankable
• unbankable

 

Translations

acceptable to a bank

• Finnish: pankkikelpoinen
• German: bankfähig

certain to bring profit

• French: bancable (fr) m or f

reliable — see reliable