单词 | unsaleable |
释义 | unsaleableadj.n. (un- prefix1 1b, 6.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold > not unsaleable1565 unmerchantable1602 unvendible1642 unmarketable1654 unsellinga1704 invendible1706 unvendable1753 sales-resistant1957 unsellable1975 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Merx Vnsalehable ware. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 24 Sermons..vented in such numbers..as have now wellnigh made all other books unsalable. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) Advt. By publishing a Second Edition of a Book with large Additions, to render the former worthless and unsalable. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxxiii. 132 An unsaleable piece of cambrick. 1798 Hull Advertiser 23 June 4/4 Middling and ordinary qualities are quite unsaleable. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 178 The unsaleable nature of my writings. 1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 112 A horse is useless, and therefore unsaleable, if no one can ride. Derivatives unsaleaˈbility n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold > not unvendibleness1618 invendibility?17.. invendibleness1727 unsaleableness1775 unsaleability1872 1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 123 A climax of unsaleability, unreadability, and inutility. unsaleableness n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold > not unvendibleness1618 invendibility?17.. invendibleness1727 unsaleableness1775 unsaleability1872 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unsaleableness. 1903 Sat. Rev. 10 Jan. 43/1 The unsaleableness of landscape. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1565 |
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