unsaleable

English

Alternative forms

• unsalable

Etymology

From un- +‎ saleable.

Adjective

unsaleable (comparative more unsaleable, superlative most unsaleable)

1. Not sellable.

   Synonyms: unsellable, unmerchantable, unmarketable

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62:

     Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too.

   • 1963 January, G. Freeman Allen, “Why B.R. are dropping high-power diesel-hydraulics”, in Modern Railways, page 25:

     After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets.

Derived terms

• unsaleability
• unsaleableness

Translations

not saleable

• Bulgarian: непродаваем (neprodavaem)
• Dutch: onverkoopbaar (nl)
• Finnish: myyntikelvoton (not fit for selling); kaupaksi käymätön (hard to sell)
• French: invendable (fr)
• German: unverkäuflich
• Polish: niesprzedawalny
• Portuguese: invendável, invendível

Noun

unsaleable (plural unsaleables)

1. Something that cannot be sold.

Anagrams

• unleasable, unsealable