Dictionary

bankable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbæŋkəbəl/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English bank Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English bankable From bank + -able.

Meanings

1. Acceptable to a bank.
   • a bankable check
2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.
   • The literary life evidently suits [Laura] Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV’s most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality. 2009 July 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Bibliovision”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • a bankable film star
   • Three of them—Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich—had contracts with Fox News that paid them handsomely to say outrageous and thus bankable things on a regular basis. 2013, Jonathan Alter, chapter 14, in The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 176:
3. Reliable.

Forms

Deriveds

bankability · unbankable · nonbankable

Translations (3)

de bankfähig (acceptable to a bank) · fr bancable (certain to bring profit) · fi pankkikelpoinen (acceptable to a bank)