spendable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English spendable; equivalent to spend + -able.
Adjective
editspendable (comparative more spendable, superlative most spendable)
- Capable of being spent.
- Even though there is a lot of money in the treasury, some of it has to be kept for next year, so only part of it is spendable.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 28, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 183:
- He had told me once that “all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”