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marketability

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,485 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Marketability is how easily something can be sold. Improve the marketability.

It is about appeal rather than quality, and the two part company constantly. The marketability of a house is decided by the kitchen and the road outside more than by anything else.

Definitions of marketability

  1. 1nounmarketabilityHow easily something can be sold.C2

    “The marketability of the flat halved when the shop below closed.”

marketability is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    mercātus — trade, market

  2. Old French

    marchié

  3. Anglo-Norman

    markiet

  4. Old English

    market — market

  5. Middle English

    market

  6. English

    market

  7. English, today

    marketability

Built from

  • mercor · Latin — to trade, deal in, buy
  • merx · Latin — wares, merchandise

From market + -ability. market comes from Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). a doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish - and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese - and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

marketability in the wild

  • Plum pox poses no danger to consumers, but it can ruin the marketability of stone fruit by causing acidity and deformities.

    Plum pox

  • Go Fish is said to have proved the marketability of lesbian issues for the film industry.

    Go Fish (film)

  • "Censor's" original title was "Dogshit", which was changed for this release's marketability.

    Censor (song)

  • Lastly, minor defects do not affect the product's marketability or usability, but represent workmanship defects that make the product fall short of defined quality standards.

    Acceptable quality limit

  • When certain crops such as cauliflower and broccoli are infected, the heads deteriorate and there is a complete loss of marketability.

    Alternaria leaf spot

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the merx family

marketmercy

marketability — used about once every 54,060 pages · #14,485 · point at the bar for the others