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earmarkable

earmarkable adjective: capable of being earmarked.

Adjective

earmarkable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being earmarked.
    • In bookstores (you remember them), windows and prime-space tables display language books — not images on screens but easy-to-read print on paper pages happily bound together and easily earmarkable, underlinable and turnable.2009 April 26, William Safire, “Wide World of Words”, in New York Times

Origin of earmarkable

From earmark + -able.

Questions about earmarkable

What does earmarkable mean?
Earmarkable means capable of being earmarked.
What part of speech is earmarkable?
Earmarkable is an adjective.

Words near earmarkable in the dictionary

  1. Earlywine
  2. Earlywines
  3. earlywood
  4. earlywoods
  5. earmark
  6. earmarkable
  7. earmarked
  8. earmarker
  9. earmarkers
  10. earmarking
  11. earmarkings

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