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  • adjective Capable of being guaranteed.

Etymologies

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guarantee +‎ -able

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Examples

  • But now, of course, as we realise that asset values are a matter of opinion, neither controllable nor guaranteeable by the state, we begin to realise that much of the "income" from the past was not really income at all, and that the public-sector expansion that came from taxation of this "income" has in reality not been paid for by production of value but by borrowing against asset inflation.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • He is shot on the opening day of the season by some dude who has been enticed to Wyoming by an outfit that advertises “Antelope Guaranteed” and has scouted the country closely for guaranteeable antelope.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • He is shot on the opening day of the season by some dude who has been enticed to Wyoming by an outfit that advertises “Antelope Guaranteed” and has scouted the country closely for guaranteeable antelope.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • He is shot on the opening day of the season by some dude who has been enticed to Wyoming by an outfit that advertises “Antelope Guaranteed” and has scouted the country closely for guaranteeable antelope.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • - Chris Elliot, writer and performer on "Late Night with David Letterman" e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap.

    The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 3 1989

  • Here was probable dishonor, a guaranteeable death.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Yet I must state the facts as they are - and I say that the only guaranteeable point of contact we have with the Absolute Real is on the order of: "I exist," and "There is an experience of light and sound."

    CommunityWiki: RecentChanges 2009

  • Using humans is still the only working speaker-independent way to do it. denial here [guardian. co.uk], claiming this is a case of disgruntled employees spreading falsehoods. e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap.

    Slashdot 2009

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