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puttable

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: P AH1 T AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having the right to be sold at a predetermined price.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: business, finance

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Able to be put or placed somewhere.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • quoted in 2024, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill Syl's description of the various sensations of the first few days of matrimony are very instructive also amusing but scarcely puttable on paper [...]

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A puttable bond.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, finance

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English put Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English puttable From put + -able.