marketable

CEFRB2

/mˈɑrkətəbəl/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.

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The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.
2010, Gennady Stolyarov II, The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools
If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428

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From market + -able.