vendible

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Every dollar's worth of vendible property in the world is equal in value to a dollar in gold.

From A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District by Spooner, Lysander

Adj. under the hammer, on the market, for sale. salable, marketable, vendible; unsalable &c. unpurchased†, unbought; on one's hands.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

This was a small adobe building, of only one room, in which were liquors, ``dry-goods,'' West India goods, shoes, bread, fruits, and everything which is vendible in California.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

For the third conjugation, it is i; as, from vend=ere, to sell, vendibilis, vendible, salable.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

She would have exchanged these odours at the price of her soul—but souls are not vendible, and besides she did not know she possessed one—for the familiar redolences of naphtha and horse-dung and trodden turf.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir