traceable

US/ˈtɹeɪsəbəl/

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,825 of 15,258neutral

Traceable means able to be followed back to its source. Traceable funds, fully traceable, traceable to the supplier.

In food it is a legal requirement, since every batch must be traceable back through the chain so a contaminated lot can be recalled. In finance, making money untraceable is the whole business of laundering.

Definitions of traceable

1adjectivetraceableAble to be followed back to its source.B2+
“Every call made from the phone was traceable to the same address.”

traceable is a quality.

Where it comes from

Old French
trace — an outline, track, trace
Middle English
trace
English
trace
English, today
traceable

From trace + -able. trace comes from Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

traceable in the wild

In 1934, the area was difficult to access and was described as being "not traceable to any man-made feature".
Barrington Tops
The "breakaway" was caused by a massive flood in the early 1900s (not traceable).
Sungai Mati
Historically a successor of The Inquirer and The Inquirer & Commercial News, its origin is traceable from 1840.
Daily News (Perth)
Work continues trying to trace if this might be a very extensive horizon traceable right across the preserved Sydney Basin (e.g. to Marrangaroo in the west).
Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest
A ditch is also traceable for the length of the bank, although at varying states.
The Frith

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Related words

the trace family

trace

traceable — used about once every 7,127 pages · #10,825 · point at the bar for the others

untraceable

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