purchasable

/'pə:tʃəsəbl/

Thân thiện

Many purchasable items are displayed on the store shelves.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Available for purchase: Able to be bought or acquired by paying money.
   • Capable of being corrupted: Susceptible to being influenced or controlled through bribery or improper inducements; venal.

Usage and Examples

• Available for purchase:

  • The company's assets were deemed purchasable by the investors.
  • Tickets for the event are purchasable online or at the venue.

• Capable of being corrupted:

  • The investigation revealed that several officials were purchasable.
  • A truly independent judiciary should not be purchasable.

Advanced Usage

• "financially purchasable": Emphasizes availability for commercial transaction.
  • The rare manuscript was financially purchasable at a very high price.
• "morally purchasable": Emphasizes susceptibility to corruption.
  • He proved he was morally purchasable when he accepted the bribe.

Variants and Related Words

• Purchase (verb/noun): The act of buying or something that is bought.
  • She will purchase a new car.
• Purchaser (noun): A buyer.
  • The purchaser of the property was anonymous.
• Unpurchasable (adjective): Not able to be bought or corrupted.
  • His integrity was unpurchasable.

Synonyms

• For sale: Available to be bought.
• Buyable: Capable of being purchased.
• Corruptible: Capable of being led into dishonest or immoral behavior for personal gain.
• Venal: Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery.

Antonyms

• Not for sale: Unavailable for purchase.
• Incorruptible: Incapable of being morally corrupted or bribed.
• Principled: Acting in accordance with morality and ethics.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. available for purchase
   • purchasable goods
   • many houses in the area are for sale
2. capable of being corrupted
   • corruptible judges
   • dishonest politicians
   • a purchasable senator
   • a venal police officer

Từ đồng nghĩa

• for sale
• corruptible
• bribable
• dishonest
• venal