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workable

[ wur-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. practicable or feasible:

    He needs a workable schedule.

  2. capable of or suitable for being worked. worked.


workable

/ ˈwɜːkəbəl /

adjective

  1. practicable or feasible
  2. able to be worked


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Derived Forms

  • ˌworkaˈbility, noun

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Other Words From

  • worka·bili·ty worka·ble·ness noun
  • unwork·a·bili·ty noun
  • un·worka·ble adjective noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of workable1

First recorded in 1535–45; work + -able

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Example Sentences

For instance, acquisition strategies that heavily rely on generating leads at trade fairs and conferences are no longer workable.

So they were able to navigate something that was fully workable because didn’t have to handle all of the rent.

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It provides a workable organizing principle to which any number of platform obligations could be attached.

Noguera pointed out the failures of the federal government and most state governments to actually focus on a creative and workable plan that allows students – especially those who need it most – to come back to school.

She had spent three years trying to come up with a workable Brexit strategy, and failed.

Further, the challenge for CENTCOM is further compounded by the lack of workable intelligence in Syria.

And workable solutions will require honesty—not currently a hallmark of The Gathering.

“For her it really is just a workable, satisfying way to make a living,” Turner writes.

American leaders must try to fashion a new set of workable relationships to cope with this exploding and dangerous Muslim world.

How a workable civilization is less about perfection and more about strict zoning.

Our forest fire laws are proving to be workable and hence practical.

A good illustration is furnished by the attempt to get a workable eight-hour law on government work.

Precautions really workable might be furnished the Associated Press.

Just at this time the syndicate intrusted to me three hundred thousand as a workable margin for certain future investments.

Mr. Clavering has a workable scheme, and it will only need the Sheriff and a few men whom I will choose when I am ready.

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