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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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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A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.

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In that year, each barrel of sea-sticks cost government, in bounties alone, L.113 : 15s.; each barrel of merchantable herrings L.159 : 7 : 6.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain