saleable

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Most e‑waste, however, is still dismantled in informal backyard workshops that extract easily saleable metals such as copper and aluminium, leaving critical minerals untapped.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Stanmore now expects saleable coal production of 13.8 million-14.2 million tons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Having a feed market is essential, he says, for times when the rye crop does not meet food-grade specifications, perhaps due to a poor growing season, but is still saleable.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024

One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I think, a good one.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2022

Besides, not being a popular and saleable instrument, it would probably be contemptuously rejected by the ignorance and avarice of M'Crea.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden