Meanings
comparative more unsellable · superlative most unsellable
- Not sellable; very hard to sell.
Basic questions about how the various parts of the program would work, especially those involving the unsellable mortgages that banks are holding and preventing home foreclosures, were left for another day.
2009 February 11, Edmund L. Andrews, “Bailout Plan: $2.5 Trillion and a Strong U.S. Hand”, in New York TimesSynonyms: unsaleable, unmerchantable, unmarketable · Antonyms: salable, sellable, merchantable, marketable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot sellable; very hard to sell.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishsellable
- Englishunsellable
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