bankable

English

Etymology

From bank +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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[1], →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.

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