Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Variant of collectible.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being collected.
Wiktionary
- adj. Suitable for collecting.
- n. Anything that someone might want to collect.
WordNet 3.0
- n. things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique)
- adj. subject to or requiring payment especially as specified
Etymologies
- collect + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (owner of Al's Toy Barn) kidnaps Woody, and Woody learns that he's a highly valued collectable from a 1950s TV show called "Woody's Roundup," the stage is set for a daring rescue attempt by the gang from Andy's room.”
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“The poems have all been published previously, but only in collectable or hard-to-find volumes, so it's great that the BPR is making them more widely available.”
“Collect a Dean Cain collectable per level to complete the collection and gain one power of his from each movie, collect all the a Super Dean Cain Man!”
“Anyway this classic collectable is put out by Diamond Select and is part of their Starship Legends series.”
“For some surfers, the hunt for that bargain or that collectable translates into a couple of enjoyable hours every evening looking through lists of goodies.”
“Some attentive press coverage also misses the larger point by focusing on whether the award is collectable, which is certainly an open question as Chevron will pursue protracted appeals both in Ecuador and the United States, and has also made a persuasive fraud case charging that a report favorable to the plaintiffs was covertly written by the plaintiffs' lawyers themselves.”
“One should not have an end game in mind that lobby cards are somehow, or somehow will become, "collectable" (read: profitable).”
“You pay, say, £40 for a 'collectable', pre-owned paperback, and get a bonus 'free gift'.”
“There are also "collectable" postcards with scenes from the film – another case of repackaging that seems redundant.”
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