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/pɹˈæktɪkəbəl/
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[ US /ˈpɹæktəkəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹæktəkəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
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usable for a specific purpose
a practicable solution
an operable plan
How To Use practicable In A Sentence
- Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
- To tell you the truth, your plan is very attractive, but it doesn't seem to be practicable.
- It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
- When a government takes control of a failing firm and injects capital but with the plan to divest as soon as practicable, that is a receivership/conservatorship, not socialism. abb1 says: Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do
- Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.
- According to one homemade combinable multi-axle trailer's steering system, the calculation in the paper proves this design method is reasonable and practicable.
- Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
- So, too, we should whenever practicable lay on our colours in washes; if we begin with stippling our drawings they will be "niggling," and will be sure to look poor and "spotty. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
- It is practicable, if a rabbet or mitered joint is used in the sides, but if the side pieces are butted or dadoed, the rabbet for the bottom shows. Handwork in Wood
- Reluctantly, therefore, but speedily, I arose, and induing my garments with all practicable haste, I described a course to Excerpts from the Diary of William S. Mullins, November 23 through 25, 1840