Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being gained, obtained, or reached.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being obtained or reached.

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  • adjective Capable of being gained (in any sense), obtained, or reached.

Etymologies

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From gain +‎ -able.

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Examples

  • And nothing like the explicit pornography that was on Craigslist accessible to children in a very readily and easily gainable way.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2009 2009

  • Germans: 'summon the National Assembly to follow you, summon what of it is Royalist, Constitutional, gainable by money; dissolve the rest, by grapeshot if need be.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • So, you know, the very slim possibility that maybe a piece of information might be gainable through torture -- if you put that on one side of the scale, and on the other side of the scale you put all the negative consequences of having a policy of torture, as it appears we seem to have now, and the image, the terrible consequences for U.S. image, the question then remains, is that a smart policy?

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005 2005

  • He understood Joan to be charging the Bishop with poisoning her, you see; and that was not pleasing to him, for he was one of Cauchon's most loving and conscienceless slaves, and it outraged him to have Joan injure his master in the eyes of these great English chiefs, these being men who could ruin Cauchon and would promptly do it if they got the conviction that he was capable of saving Joan from the stake by poisoning her and thus cheating the English out of all the real value gainable by her purchase from the Duke of Burgundy.

    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Mark Twain 1872

  • Maroney won't even confirm his shoulder is bothering him, saying, "Even if you hit it on the head, I'm going to tell you, 'No,' '' but Maroney agrees he" most definitely "left gainable yards on the field against the 49ers.

    Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2008

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