merchantable
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Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.
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Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.
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Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.
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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.
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The iron prepared by the three processes of which we have spoken, although merchantable, and suited for various common purposes, is still far from good.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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