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English
Etymology
From un- + saleable.
Adjective
unsaleable (comparative more unsaleable, superlative most unsaleable)
- Not sellable.
- Synonyms: unsellable, unmerchantable, unmarketable
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62:Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too.
1963 January, G. Freeman Allen, “Why B.R. are dropping high-power diesel-hydraulics”, in Modern Railways, page 25:After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets.
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Noun
unsaleable (plural unsaleables)
- Something that cannot be sold.
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