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.

Tellable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being told.

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