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Definition of "vendible" []

  • Suitable or fit for sale; salable: vendible items of food. (adjective)
  • Obsolete Venal. (adjective)
  • Something that can be sold. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vendible" in a sentence
  • "The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject; or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured."
  • "Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading."
  • "The rule of thumb is that when a vendible good resembles even remotely the sort of thing one might actually desire or a thing only a tourist would buy, the price tag implies expensive pesos."