wageable

Adjective

wageable (comparative more wageable, superlative most wageable)

1. Capable of being waged or fought.
   • Possibly the contest was open to all school children; but our guess is that it was wageable among only subscribers to the American Boy.1946, Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks, page 194
   • The Soviets believe nuclear war is wageable and winnable, which is not to say they desire one or want to start one.1990, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Richard H. Shultz, U.S. Defense Policy in an Era of Constrained Resources, page 312
2. For which wages can be paid.
   • ...but this money was only lent, when he came to wageable ore he was paid for his ore at the current bargain price less the amount of lent money he had received.1958, Archaeologia Aeliana
   • Insecurity of employment, which is a prerequisite of work discipline, contradicts capital's requirement for unlimited quantities of potentially wageable labour.1978, Suzanne de Brunhoff, The State, Capital and Economic Policy, page 10