rentableadj.

1677 J. Logan Analogia Honorum ii. x. 50/1 These Baronies were anciently uncertain, and rentable at the pleasure of the King.

1755 Acct. Trial F. Delap Pref. p. ii This Town..was found to contain 500 Houses, rentable at 20,000 l. per Annum of that Currency.

1787 J. J. Powell Ess. Learning Powers 567 If it were rentable, then the rent must be apportioned, and so would not be the ancient accustomed rent reserved for the five acres.

1857 Rep. Supreme Court Arkansas 17 54 That the Notrebe plantation was a very uncertain one, in consequence of liability to overflow... That it was, in consequence, scarcely rentable at all, at any price.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 All that is rentable on the..estate is the work of the tenants.

1926 Dial. Notes 5 388 Rent,..apartment or rentable house.

1993 Toronto Life Apr. 33/2 The city would in return allow a higher building, with more rentable office space.

1814 Crit. Rev. 4th Ser. 5 283 The evils of which he complains, arise out of the very principle that he desires to extend—that of allowing money a rentable value, in addition to its use in exchange.

1848 W. T. Thornton Plea for Peasant Proprietors v. 243 Experience has shown that an outlay of five or six pounds per acre would add twenty or thirty shillings to the rentable value.

1927 Econ. Jrnl. 37 538 When inflated capitalisation is to be made rentable.

1934 Economica New Ser. 1 264 If a particular capital instrument ‘wears out’, or for any other reason ceases to be ‘rentable’, its replacement by another instrument or instruments of the same earning power..is to be taken for granted.

1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 20 People interested in Old English..cannot possibly make use of that sort of equipment for a sufficient number of hours for it to be rentable.