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語源

From Latin vendibilis, from vendere (“to sell”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛndɪb(ə)l/

形容詞

vendible (comparative more vendible, superlative most vendible)

1. Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 28:

     But as for the multitude of Sermons ready printed and pil'd up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas in his veſtry, and adde to boot St. Martin, and St. Hugh, have not within their hallow'd limits more vendible ware of all ſorts ready made: […]

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     the regulating of prices of things vendible

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book または page number):

     [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!

使用する際の注意点

• Vendible indicates that something can be sold, whereas marketable signifies that it is proper or fit to be sold, according to regulations and customs.

派生語

• vendibility

名詞

vendible (複数形 vendibles)

1. Anything that can be bought and sold.
   • 2008 June 12, “Americans Living in a Material World”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     One thing for sure, with the way the free-market purists have turned everything from political representation to health care to spiritual redemption into mere vendibles, they won’t be pleased with him for pushing this particular line of inquiry.