unvendibleadj.
(un- prefix1 1 Cf. unvendable adj.)
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold > not
unsaleable1565
unmerchantable1602
unvendible1642
unmarketable1654
unsellinga1704
invendible1706
unvendable1753
sales-resistant1957
unsellable1975
1642 Compl. Ho. Commons 7 That unvendible commodity of Ship-mony.
1747 Fool (1748) II. 274 It is best to lay them [sc. taxes] on Things unvendible.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 95 Nearly a third of Pope's original subscription edition..[was] left unvendible.
1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists 81 To..carry off that otherwise unvendible work.
Derivatives
unˈvendibleness n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold > not
unvendibleness1618
invendibility?17..
invendibleness1727
unsaleableness1775
unsaleability1872
1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 42 The unvendiblenesse of the rest [of the goods].
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