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VENDIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vendible mean?
• VENDIBLE (adjective)
The adjective VENDIBLE has 1 sense:
1. fit to be offered for sale
Familiarity information: VENDIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fit to be offered for sale
Synonyms:
marketable; merchantable; sellable; vendable; vendible
Context example:
marketable produce
Similar:
salable; saleable (capable of being sold; fit for sale)
Derivation:
vend (sell or offer for sale from place to place)
Context examples
You were a part of the trade of your home, and were bought and sold like any other vendible thing your people dealt in.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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