An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VENDIBLE
marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible
(adjective) fit to be offered for sale; “marketable produce”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
vendible (comparative more vendible, superlative most vendible)
Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
Usage notes
• Vendible indicates that something can be sold, whereas marketable signifies that it is proper or fit to be sold, according to regulations and customs.
Noun
vendible (plural vendibles)
Anything that can be bought and sold.
Source: Wiktionary
Vend"i*ble, a. Etym: [L. vendibilis: cf. OF. vendible, F. vendable.]
Definition: Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.
Note: Vendible differs from marketable; the latter signifies proper or fit for market, according to the laws or customs of a place. Vendible has no reference to such legal fitness.
Vend"i*ble, n.
Definition: Something to be sold, or offered for sale.
– Vend"i*ble*ness, n.
– Vend"i*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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