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bankable

adj
/ˈbæŋkəbəl/

Etymology

From bank + -able.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. derived from *bankiz✻
  3. derived from *banki✻
  4. derived from bank
  5. derived from banca
  6. derived from banque
  7. inherited from banke
  8. suffixed as bankable — “bank + able”

Definitions

  1. Acceptable to a bank.

    • a bankable check

  2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.

    • a bankable film star
    • 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.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA