commissionableadj.

1842 New Monthly Mag. Apr. 488 A lawyer is essentially a commissionable man... There is scarcely a situation within the lines of civilization that he may not assume.

1891 Times 3 Mar. 13/2 What kind of reserve of ships..exists in such a condition as to be commissionable for active service, at..a week's unforeseen notice?

1969 Jrnl. Inst. Heating & Ventilating Engineers 37 30/1 Unless the designer understands how commissioning is done, he will never be able to design a properly commissionable system.

2003 Musical Times Summer 61/1 For Tippett, the BBC was the vital means of getting his career started—it made him credible..as a commissionable composer.

1909 Statist 28 Aug. 523/2 He pointed out that the ‘commissionable’ turnover in 1907, as compared with that of 1902, showed an increase of 63 per cent.

1949 Billboard 19 Mar. 7/4 Sold at $3.95..,the agency offered stations 85 cents out of each order obtained. The 85 cents was commissionable, at 15 per cent, to the agency.

1981 Financial Times 8 Sept. 19/2 As long as production costs are commissionable charges by which advertising agencies gain, it cannot be expected that they will strive to keep them down.

2008 J. O'Donnell Shortest Investm. Bk. Ever ix. 91 As brokers, they usually make their money on ‘commissionable’ sales. In other words, the investments they sell you pay them a sales commission.