marketableadj.n.

1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 43 At the tyme of their being Market-able..they wold euidently appere, so, to be rated.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 92 Ros. Then shal we be newes-cram'd. Cel. All the better: we shalbe the more Marketable . View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 269 Seb. Will money buy em? Ant. Very like: one of them Is a plaine Fish, and no doubt marketable . View more context for this quotation

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Bbbb^v They do transport their Marketable commodities from one place to another.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 151 This Corn..proving Mercatable, is now become one of the commonest grains of this County.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 28 The goods are not of a marketable goodness.

1762 in R. Brown Hist. Island Cape Breton (1869) 345 The morue vert, or mud-fish, a commodity not marketable in Portugal, Spain, or Italy, but only fit for our own home consumption.

1812 Ld. Byron Waltz Ep. Our girls being come to a marriageable (or, as they call it, marketable) age.

1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 165 Unpossessed of any marketable talent.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 Such fat cattle as were up to the marketable standard.

1959 J. Barzun House of Intellect iv. 96 They want instead some vocational training that will be immediately marketable.

1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 4 The buyer has and is able to transfer a good and marketable title to the lot.

1988 A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones ii. 23 He was..the owner of all her unsold paintings, it was in his interest that they should become better known and therefore more and more marketable.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 3 If hee sende him to Fayres or Markets, to buy, to sell, or to doe other things markettable.

1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 91 Their goods unladen, and they are sent home with assurance of a marketable price for the same.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. xi. 186 Being calculated to reduce the marketable value of the true gem.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 298 To enlarge the marketable area by enfranchising other ports would violate the Navigation Act.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 305 The miniatures, Barbizons, and J. R. drawings had been bought in by Soames; and relics of no marketable value were set aside in an off-room for members of the family who cared to have mementoes.

1978 G. A. Sheehan Running & Being ix. 127 He performs with perverse intensity an action which has no marketable value.

1986 City Limits 15 Jan. 18 Beuys was opposed to an art world ruled by the marketable value of an artist's creation.

1824 L. Hunt Wishing-cap viii, in Examiner 13 June 369/2 To say nothing of marketables, I can scarcely ever see a man above the common run..but I recognize in him things which I want very much.

1871 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House in Monthly Packet Aug. 121 His boat..was wont to convey the marketables of Vale Leston twice a week to Ewmouth.

1979 Econ. Jrnl. 89 590 The numerator..refers to the profits and surpluses received by that part of the economy which produces marketables.