salable

adjective

ˈsā-lə-bəl How to pronounce salable (audio)
variants or saleable
Definition of salablenext
1
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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2
as in marketable
fit to be offered for sale the car has to be put in better condition before it will be at all salable

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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
  1. corporate
  2. marketable
  3. commercial
  4. profitable
  5. valuable
  6. sellable
  7. expensive
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
Definition of corporate
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  • Bellingham has followed a similar trajectory off the pitch, emerging as one of the sport’s most marketable young stars.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That depends on how many, if any, research projects lead to marketable treatments.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of marketable
Adjective
  • The company says several major railroads are now under contract to deploy its system for commercial freight transport.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
  • But there were 22 fewer Korean releases, and Korean commercial films averaged a return of minus 33% in 2025.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of commercial
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  • FlavorCloud helps brands turn international demand into profitable revenue.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In terms of return for your talents, being a good hang is currently more profitable than writing jokes.
    — Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of profitable
Adjective
  • Regional authorities said that the entire caper was conducted within three minutes and that the thieves targeted the most valuable paintings in the museum, which occupies the French old master’s one-time residence.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Bassetti argued that the company’s scale represented an increasingly valuable asset for streamers.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of valuable
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
Definition of sellable
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
Definition of expensive

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“Salable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salable. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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