deletableadj.
/dᵻˈliːtəbl/, U.S. /dəˈlidəb(ə)l/, /diˈlidəb(ə)l/ That may be omitted; that it is possible to remove or eradicate; deserving of deletion.
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1922 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 327 His writing is strange, small and rapid; but not a word is deletable.
1981 Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 48 165 English, like many other languages, has ‘intransitive’ verbs..and ‘transitive’ verbs (with deletable indefinite objects; e.g. ‘He ate.’).
1997 R. C. Summers Secure Computing xi. 546 Files can be designated as not deletable, not renamable, hidden, or read-only.
2019 @KapustaDiamond 2 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 3 Jan. 2019) I've got about 40 emails but most of them look deletable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1922- letterquality
- letters
- letters after a person's name
- letters avocatory
- letters citatory
- letters dimissory
- letters following a person's name
- letters of administration
- letters of advocation
- letters of communion
- letters of ejection
- letters of exculpation
- letters of fire and sword
- letters of fraternity
- letters of horning
- letters of jussion
- letters of marque and reprisal
- letters of mart man
- letters of mart ship
- letters of open doors
- letters of order
- letters of orders
- letters of passport
- letters of placard
- letters of placards