dollarableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

dollarable (comparative more dollarable, superlative most dollarable)

1. (rare) profitable, valuable
   • 1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin‎, volume VI, number 4, page 4:

     Nevertheless, like everything else worth while, however sacred and precious and well-guarded, they have always been subject to attack, mostly by despoiling gainseekers, -- mischief-makers of every degree from Satan to supervisors, lumbermen, cattlemen, farmers, etc., eagerly trying to make everything dollarable, often thinly disguised in smiling philanthropy, calling pocket-filling plunder "Utilization of beneficent natural resources, that man and beast may be fed and the dear Nation grow great."