purchasable
adjective (purchasable)
Everyday
In the lessons
A formal word for notices, games and shops: «purchasable items», «extra lives purchasable in the app» — a warning that games may ask for money. In maths problems it marks what can be bought with a set amount. Everyday speech says «you can buy it» or «for sale».
Examples
- Tickets are purchasable at the door. tree →
- Extra coins are purchasable in the game — ask a grown-up first. tree →
- Not every item in the museum shop is purchasable. tree →
- With $10, which of these items are purchasable? tree →
- Lunch is purchasable from the canteen. tree →
- Seeds are purchasable at the garden centre. tree →
Note
From «purchase» (buy) + «-able»; the e is dropped. Formal; everyday: «for sale», «available». Opposite: unpurchasable (rare).
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «purchasable» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «purchasable» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/purchasable/