"employable" meaning in English

See employable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: employable [positive], more employable [comparative], most employable [superlative]
Etymology: employ + -able Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|employ|able}} employ + -able Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. When a person is employable, they have the skills that a job needs.
    Sense id: simple-employable-en-adj-JABsBXn0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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