saleability
(seɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ)
Also salability, (irregularly) salesability
[f. next: see -bility.]
Saleableness.
| 1797 Coleridge in Sotheby's Catal. Bks. & MSS. 30 Nov. (1891) 58 So much for the priceableness of the volume—now for the saleability. 1818 Moore Mem. (1856) VIII. 248 Saleability is the thing with the booksellers. 1881 Jevons in Contemp. Rev. Mar., To throw taxation off land on to personalty..is to increase the value of English land; but to restrict its salability or letting is to diminish its value. 1885 Times 9 Oct. 9/2 The saleability of Church property. 1940 E. Gill Autobiogr. vii. 195 The man who buys in order to sell can only judge of good by the saleability of what he has bought. 1940 M. Lowry Let. 27 July (1967) 33 Whit..has not..wanted to say anything..until some verdict has been reached..as to its salesability. 1972 Nature 28 Jan. 232/2 One is forced to the conclusion that the title was chosen with an eye to salability. 1975 Language LI. 447 It was a common practice..for grammatical works by well-known scholars to be more or less extensively emended and refashioned by later publishers, in order to enhance their usefulness and saleability. 1976 Publishers' Weekly 1 Nov. 70/1 Undoubtedly it enhances gift book salability. 1979 SLR Camera Jan. 14/2 Subjects of universal and eternal—as far as saleability was concerned—content. |