What's the difference between marketable and saleable?

Marketable


Definition:

  • (a.) Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable.
  • (a.) Current in market; as, marketable value.
  • (a.) Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (2) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (3) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (4) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (5) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (6) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (7) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (8) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (9) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (10) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
  • (11) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (13) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (14) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
  • (15) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
  • (16) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
  • (17) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (18) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
  • (19) UK agriculture, it argues, “is much more dependent on EU markets than the EU is on the UK”.
  • (20) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.

Saleable


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Saleably

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moves to make clothes wearable for longer, while ensuring they remain fashionable and saleable, are now underway.
  • (2) He hoped that in time the technology would benefit the farming community and produce a saleable product.
  • (3) Use of direct contact condensers could permit efficient emission control if coupled to processes that produce saleable quantities of purified carbon dioxide and elemental sulfur.
  • (4) Obesity was a feature of faster growing fowls which matured earlier, consumed more, utilised food less efficiently for egg production and produced fewer saleable eggs.
  • (5) That only serves to increase the ceaseless pressure on reporters to obtain crowd-pleasing, saleable stories.
  • (6) The observed differences in livability at 6 wk of age could increase the number of saleable broilers by 10 to 15 thousand per million chicks placed.
  • (7) The company expects Hotzel mines to ramp up to a saleable production rate of 2.9m tonnes per annum and said the redundancies, optimised mine plans and restructuring initiatives were expected to reduce Rand-dominated mine gate costs.
  • (8) Some token “bomb in a box”, a missile in a silo that keeps the UK nominally a nuclear power, might be politically saleable.
  • (9) English country houses are incredibly saleable, everyone around the planet recognises them”.
  • (10) "The government is hanging around and waiting for a share price increase … the government should get into a saleable position as soon as possible," he added.
  • (11) These marriages are dissoluble if she fails to please, but the woman is no longer saleable.
  • (12) Money can be made by separating the income flows from the actual business of care and packaging them as saleable investment instruments – securitisation.
  • (13) And after a week of internal dissent over the possible rise in the GST, Turnbull articulated the government’s central dilemma : finding a way to achieve its stated aim of using the tax changes to boost economic growth while also delivering the compensation and personal income tax cuts that would make it fair and politically saleable.
  • (14) Instead of talking about Jewish conspiracies and racial purity, he would use "saleable words such as freedom, security, identity, democracy".
  • (15) But Rik Ferguson, a computer security consultant at Trend Micro, said: "This has all the hallmarks of commercial criminal activity going for a saleable commodity.
  • (16) West Ham will surely become very saleable, in its brand new iconic stadium, built for the Games that were going to inspire a generation.
  • (17) In the days when you couldn't evict a tenant without good reason, having to sell your property with incumbent sitting tenants considerably reduced its value and saleability.
  • (18) On the basis of the microbiological (3) and chemical findings and of the sensorial evaluation of colour, consistency, odour and taste of egg whites and yolks, the following storage times were determined for eggs in the quality class "saleable" requiring an overall rating not lower than 6 (satisfactory): 14 to 16 days, for non-lacquered eggs stored at 4 degrees C and for lacquered eggs at 20 degrees C whereas 5 days were found to be the maximum storage time for untreated eggs stored at 20 degrees C. If boiled eggs are stored in pure carbon dioxide at 20 degrees C, a distinct quality loss is observed already after a few days.
  • (19) He has not thrived in a summer of overseas emergencies, despite confidence in Downing Street that statesmanlike composure is the prime minister’s most saleable quality.
  • (20) And you might argue that because you contributed to the saleability of that movie, and its success, you deserve to.” Instinctively he feels that the back-end deal is the morally sounder option.

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