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exportable

B2
adjective

Pronunciation

UK

  • /ɛkspˈɔːtəbəl/

US

  • /ɛkˈspɔrtəbəl/

Description

Imagine you're making useful gadgets in your workshop. If those gadgets are exportable, it means they are not just good products, but also suitable for being packed up and sent to other countries for sale. The idea does not apply only to physical goods, though. Skills, services, software, or data can also be exportable if they can be used, sold, or transferred beyond the place where they started. A skill like coding, for example, is often called exportable because a programmer can work for companies in many different countries.

The word comes from "export," which means to send goods out of a country. So if something is exportable, it can move beyond its place of origin in a practical or legal way. Think about oranges grown in Florida: if there is demand for them overseas and they can be shipped safely, they are exportable. But something that is too fragile, restricted by law, or hard to move would not be.

Examples

  1. 1

    Product packaging

    The company redesigned the packaging so the product would be exportable.

  2. 2

    Software data

    Only customer names and order numbers are exportable from this app.

  3. 3

    Career skills

    Her experience in project management turned out to be highly exportable to other industries.

    • Pattern

      exportable to + field

      useful in a different field too

  4. 4

    Export controls

    Because of safety regulations, the chemical is not exportable without a special license.

Forms and spellings

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Main spelling

  • exportableadjective