ricevibile
Italian
editEtymology
editAdjective
editricevibile (plural ricevibili)
- receivable
- that can be tolerated or lived with; acceptable
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 21, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Alla fine, nell'Assemblea generale dell’ONU tenutasi a New York nel mese di settembre, mi arresi, promettendo al segretario generale che avrei fatto tutto il possibile per essere presente, a patto che dal vertice potessimo attenderci un accordo ricevibile.
- Finally, at the UN General Assembly plenary in New York in September, I relented, promising the Secretary General I'd do my best to attend, so long as the conference appeared likely to produce an agreement we could live with.
- (literally, “In the end, at the UN General Assembly held in New York in the month of September, I surrendered, promising the Secretary General that I would have done everything possible to be present, on the condition that we could expect an acceptable agreement at the summit.”)