英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈbæŋkəbəl/

形容詞

bankable (comparative more bankable, superlative most bankable)

1. Acceptable to a bank.

   a bankable check

2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.

   a bankable film star

   • 2009 July 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Bibliovision”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The literary life evidently suits [Laura] Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV’s most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality.

   • 2013, Jonathan Alter, chapter 14, in The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 176:

     Three of them—Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich—had contracts with Fox News that paid them handsomely to say outrageous and thus bankable things on a regular basis.

3. Reliable.

派生語