feasible

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  1. adjective Capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible: a feasible plan. See Synonyms at possible.
  2. adjective Used or dealt with successfully; suitable: feasible new sources of energy.
  3. adjective Logical; likely: a feasible explanation.

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  • While perhaps technically feasible, the disruption to current operations, the junking of existing vehicles, and the sheer amount of capital needed for this transition make this pathway infeasible by 2020 in our estimation. —  GreenBiz.com Green Business News
  • When meta-analysis was not feasible, a qualitative systematic review of eligible studies was conducted. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The shelf project can offer 16 base expansion ideas to make the rate cuts feasible, and has. —  TaxProf Blog
  • The plaintiff argued that a safer design was "feasible," because a sealer can be made from a water base, but the plaintiff's expert "admitted that the water-based products take hours longer to dry." —  The Volokh Conspiracy
  • Naturally the bottom line trumps nostalgia; O'Connell flatly adds that "if it's not economically feasible, then we're not going to do it." —  Chicagoist
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  1. Middle English fesable, from Old French faisable, from faire, fais-, to do, from Latin facere; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also feasable, feazable, faisible; from Old French (and F.) faisable, that may be done, from faire (present participle faisant), do: see fact
 

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