merchantable

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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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Full utilization of all merchantable material, care of young growth in felling and logging, and the piling of brush, to be subsequently burned by the forest officers if burning is necessary, are among these conditions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various