salability

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Unlike pop culture, high culture has been insulated from the market, judged not by salability but by "aesthetic" qualities dreamed up by high culture's "priests."

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

While enslaved people waited in Franklin and Armfield’s “holding pen” in Alexandria, the two men most likely adopted classic techniques employed by slave traders to enhance enslaved people’s salability, McInnis said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2019

In our data-obsessed moment, it is subversive to assert that the value of a product is not reducible to its salability.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

Though lauded by agents at Dystel & Goderich, an agency best known for representing President Obama, publishers fretted over the novel’s salability.

From Forbes • Jun. 7, 2012

It was thus that certain legitimate claims had been satisfied, the extent of jurisdictions had been curtailed, the salability of offices had been put down, the expenses of justice had been lessened.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert