as in useful
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose
this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation
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Recent Examples of employable
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
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Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
But staying employable means chasing certifications every few years as technology leaps forward.
—Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
But an uncle who worked as an aerospace engineer guided her to the more employable area of computer science.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2010
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The planner pages include monthly calendar views, weekly spreads, address pages, lined note paper, and useful facts at a glance.—
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When walking the halls this week, don’t ignore the less exciting but useful window washer, bartender, or snowblower.—
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While fast charging is already challenging at room temperature, low temperatures exacerbate kinetic limitations, triggering lithium plating on graphite anodes and sharply reducing available capacity.—
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In the same time frame, the number of homes that are valued at $500,000 went from 5% to 25% of the city’s housing stock — making up a quarter of what’s available in Olathe.—
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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