"saleability" meaning in English

See saleability in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: saleabilities [plural]
Etymology: sale + -ability. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sale|ability}} sale + -ability Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} saleability (usually uncountable, plural saleabilities)
  1. The quality or state of being saleable. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: salability [US], saleableness
    Sense id: en-saleability-en-noun-RoJTcuVq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ability

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, chapter 5, in The Inheritors, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, published 1920, page 72",
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          "ref": "1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter 48, in Jennie Gerhardt, New York: Boni & Liveright",
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