as in useful
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose
this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation
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More training and apprenticeship programs, for instance, might bring these graduates up to speed on the skills that companies need, making more youth employable by companies at home or abroad—as chip designers, engineers, consultants, legal advisers, and financial analysts.
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Rohit Lamba, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2024
Exactly how jobs and professions will change is not yet clear, but universities tasked with producing employable graduates are already thinking about how higher education can stay relevant amid the uncertainty.
—Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The goal of the program is to make students more employable.
—Caleb Scott, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024
Fluency with code would round out my children’s literacy—and keep them employable.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 28 Dec. 2024.
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