"merchantable" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From merchant + -able.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more merchantable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most merchantable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "March 1858, Nathan Clifford in the United States Supreme Court, Leonard v. Davis 66 U.S. 476",
          "text": "The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class."
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      "links": [
        [
          "market",
          "market"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "unmerchantable"
        },
        {
          "word": "merchantability"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "fit for market",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "obchodovatelný"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fit for market",
          "word": "commerciable"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fit for market",
          "word": "commerciabile"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fit for market",
          "word": "comerciable"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "merchantable"
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    {
      "word": "unmerchantable"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From merchant + -able.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more merchantable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most merchantable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "unmerchantable"
    },
    {
      "word": "merchantability"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "March 1858, Nathan Clifford in the United States Supreme Court, Leonard v. Davis 66 U.S. 476",
          "text": "The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs."
        }
      ],
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        "Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class."
      ],
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        [
          "market",
          "market"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ]
      ]
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fit for market",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obchodovatelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fit for market",
      "word": "commerciable"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fit for market",
      "word": "commerciabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fit for market",
      "word": "comerciable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "merchantable"
}