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Merchantable is a trade and law word. Goods are merchantable when they are in a fit state to be sold — not broken, not rotten, of the quality a buyer can reasonably expect. Older British law talked about ‘merchantable quality.’ Though actually, almost nobody says this in daily life. People say fit to sell or in good condition; modern consumer law often says satisfactory quality instead. You will meet merchantable in contracts, insurance, and commercial textbooks, not in a café. It describes goods, never people.
適售的(法律/商業用語:貨物狀況適合拿去賣)
組成From merchant + -able: fit to be handled by a merchant, fit to go to market.
同家族的字
- merchantthe first half; merchantable means fit for a merchant to sell
- merchandiseit describes goods that can honestly be sold
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
merchantableadj
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Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
- The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。