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Definition of salablenext
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as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale an item that would be too expensive to produce, and attractive to too few people, to ever be considered a salable commodity

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Recent Examples of salable But, with the advent of platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, the online self became highly saleable. — T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Bulls that aren’t saleable become steer for the ranch’s beef market, a direct-to-consumer enterprise through which local families can purchase beef by the pound or buy beef shares — freezer beef sold in quarters, halves or wholes. — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026 With most of the master’s level degrees, any pretense of value beyond rendering the prospective students more salable in the workforce is often dispensed with entirely. — James Cramer, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2026 Because fellow directors usually aim to make movies better, not just more salable. — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for salable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salable
Adjective
  • Earnings versus cash flows Dalio also cautioned that investors may be overlooking the risk of deteriorating corporate cash generation, even as headline earnings continue to improve.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The Fed raised interest rates around the same time, which can make corporate dealmaking more difficult.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • That depends on how many, if any, research projects lead to marketable treatments.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Beers, a tight end with one of the most marketable names in college football, is on his way to becoming a fan favorite in Norman.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The vehicles are designed to accommodate anything from a single experiment module to a larger commercial manufacturing payload.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In the month since Tesla’s Cybercab rollout in Austin, the company has almost quadrupled the number of its driverless, bronze two-seaters authorized for commercial service in Texas.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Europe’s struggle to build a trillion-dollar market-cap company has been on the mind of Peter Koerte, CEO of Siemens’s Smart Infrastructure division—the most profitable of Siemens’s four core businesses.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Ultimately, American Girl still has to walk a fine line between being a profitable brand and remaining—and enduring as—a safe brand for children who are still learning to navigate the world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • There’s no player more valuable on the back end of USC’s defense.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Chinese scientists have developed a 250-kilowatt system that can produce hydrogen and fresh water from seawater while recovering valuable marine resources.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • In our experience, that constraint is what makes autonomy sellable to a CFO at all.
    — Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • If sellable ratings points are squeezed by an early dip in deliveries and demand remains flat-to-up, scatter costs will rise.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Narrowing the spread also weakens the incentive to steer patients toward costlier drugs and to acquire physician practices and infusion clinics — the very behaviors that have made care more expensive.
    — Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The problem is that these systems are slow, expensive and don’t scale.
    — Reynald Fasciaux, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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