marketable

marketable
a) Of or pertaining to marketability; capable of being marketed.

The quality and scarcity ensured that the product was eminently marketable.

b) saleable (of goods) or employable (of people)

The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.


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