BANKABLE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of bankable in English

(Definition of bankable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of bankable from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bankable

bankable
Biotech investors are seeing that improvements in drug science and testing are leading to more bankable results.
Just like every year, the number one blockbuster was the concession stand and its most bankable star, popcorn.
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Corporations and governments are pushing deeper and farther than ever in search of bankable resources.
But the comparisons shed an interesting light on who is considered bankable or a star.
Forget the tower companies, the people themselves are bankable.
So how is it that despite all these obstacles, and a lack of subsidies, the poor are indeed bankable?
In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm's length.
Everything was not computed in terms of bankable wealth.
Many merchants even keep a saucer of black sand in readiness to dilute their bankable gold to the utmost thinness it will bear.
At least nine out of ten of the applicants are virtually without bankable credit of any kind.
These are all paid in full once a fortnight in bankable money.
To a high degree, "good will," trade-marks, etc., are bankable assets.
Bankable dust means simply gold, pure and undefiled.
There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.
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Translations of bankable

in Chinese (Traditional)
可獲利的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
可获利的…
in Spanish
taquillero…
in Portuguese
financiável…
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