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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ninety-three thousand chests of good merchantable opium, worth many taels, was not a dogma to be trifled with, not even by the Emperor of the Flowery Kingdom.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various