marketable

English

Etymology

From market +‎ -able.

Adjective

marketable (comparative more marketable, superlative most marketable)

1. Of or pertaining to marketability; capable of being marketed.

   The quality and scarcity ensured that the product was eminently marketable.

   • 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:

     If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.

2. saleable (of goods) or employable (of people)
   • 2010, Gennady Stolyarov II, The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools‎^[1]:

     The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.

Translations

of or pertaining to marketability

• Italian: commerciabile (it)
• Portuguese: comerciável, comercializável, vendável (pt)
• Romanian: comerciabil (ro) m, vandabil (ro)
• Spanish: comerciable (es) m or f, marquetinero m