What's the difference between sellable and tellable?
Sellable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown has given his successor his or her best chance of making a Lab-Lib deal work and making it sellable internally and to the country.
(2) But there also has to be a sense of what is sellable to voters, who are a lot more sceptical of government than they were in the post-war golden age.
(3) In part, it’s about educating sports teams that some of their programs that are traditionally viewed as costs, like a zero waste program or a recycling program, can now be seen as sellable assets, he said.
(4) No one who really matters in this high-stakes political game pretends that the health secretary's original plan, for Monitor to become an economic regulator which compels hospitals to compete with each other in his originally envisaged free-market-modelled new NHS, is now the right thing to do, or politically sellable.
(5) Even if Syriza succeeds in forming a government and manages to convince its neighbours they should show it some forgiveness, coming up with a deal that is economically feasible and politically sellable will be a formidable challenge for international diplomats.
(6) What matters for the deficit, though, is whether it is politically sellable.
(7) There is an element of confidence now.” Banks have been holding more cash and easily sellable assets in the run-up to the vote, so this has reduced their demand for any extra contingency funds.
(8) Turning every aspect of our public services into mutuals as they imagine them – or mutual “joint ventures” with growing opportunities for private investors – seems more politically sellable than more blatant forms of privatisation.
(9) He replied: “Two grand; two and a half grand; eighteen hundred quid; fourteen hundred quid.” “Sellable yes, necklaces all stone ones, few of them.
(10) It also makes the program more sellable to taxpayers.
(11) Hollande's third problem is that there is no stomach in France for a German-style package of reforms, nor has there been a deep-enough crisis to make a Thatcherite approach politically sellable.