What's the difference between sellable and unsellable?

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.

Unsellable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leaseholds started in the 1850s had five or 10 years left to run, the property was unsellable, no one would repair it.
  • (2) The village authorities have told farmers not to plant rice this year, the damage radiation has caused to Fukushima's farming industry would render any crops unsellable.
  • (3) After the 1981 riots many businesses fled, young people could not find any work and some properties were almost unsellable.
  • (4) Last night Salmond referred to a “range” of available currency options but there are arguably only two, a new Scottish currency or the euro, both of which were deemed politically unsellable last time round.
  • (5) Yes - but does that mean that Spurs consider Benoit Assou-Ekotto an unsellable asset – they have reportedly told QPR that unless they take the left-back on loan and cover his wages then they can't have Tom Carroll on loan for the season.
  • (6) While heritage woodlands should earn over £220m if put on the market, the report says the majority were "unsellable at a political and practical level".
  • (7) Her house, though, is effectively unsellable – which, in an area usually associated with snap sales and rising prices, speaks volumes.
  • (8) "The commercial logic in offering a combined price for anything is a direct acknowledgement that you are either looking for a discount over the individual valuations, or you are offering a 'persuasion bonus' by taking on board by taking an unsellable asset off someone's hands in order to get the other one.
  • (9) Here, I meet a tireless anti-HS2 campaigner called Ewen Simpson, another resident of an apparently unsellable local house named Helen Shaul, and John Keleher and Pat Mather, who breed ponies at their stud farm.