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US
/ˈbæŋkəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈæŋkəbəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈæŋkəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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guaranteed to bring a profit
without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest -
acceptable to or at a bank
bankable funds
How To Use bankable In A Sentence
- In this industry, Arbuckle's sin was worse than Mr. Gibson's: he wasn't bankable anymore.
- Before ET, Spielberg was just a bankable director with a populist touch.
- I couldn't have come up with a better one myself, and I'm very good at bankable names. SWIMMING TO CATALINA
- Faith's showbusiness career began in the 1950s in a skiffle band and he went on to become one of the music industry's most bankable stars before getting regular film, television and stage roles.
- Nostalgia aside, you've been dropped from The Other Side, a film that was slated as your major comeback from trainwreck territory, because you're not "bankable," according to a TMZ source. Yelena Shuster: Lindsay Lohan Joins Millions of Unemployed -- Again
- The temptation arises partly, of course, because commercial rock music is still scandalously short of bankable female stars, and we thus have only a handful of comparisons to conjure with.
- Movies made from his books -- including "" The Last Picture Show '' and "" Terms of Endearment '' -- have made his name bankable in Los Angeles, despite a few duds like "" Texasville, '' and his screenplays are always in demand. The Poet Lariat
- without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest
- While some of these names sound very bankable, the artists claim that only 7% of PPCA registered artists receive more than $1000 a year in fees for the transmission of their music.
- I'm happy to call it by my own name, but it's not a very bankable name, really.