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  • adjective Capable of being withdrawn.

Etymologies

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withdraw +‎ -able

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Examples

  • "withdrawable" mixer remaining inside the cylinder during the roasting process, but designed to be withdrawn at the end, discharging the contents with a jerk into a circular cooler.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • This is such an eminently sound principle, that, conversely, all companies authorized to make loans on real estate, buildings, etc., should be either prohibited from taking deposits or be required by law to maintain a certain percentage of their assets in actual cash as a reserve for the security of depositors, more especially when they accept deposits which are withdrawable by cheque and payable on demand or short notice.

    The Banking Systems of Canada and the United States 1905

  • But right before their imposition -- at the moment where they remain a withdrawable threat -- their effectiveness is at their height.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Trita Parsi 2012

  • As usual, each month, the best performers will share € 22'000 in reserve money money credited to an account in RTFX with which the winners will invest for real, the profits made becoming withdrawable.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • We note that PMS shares were withdrawable on demand, and fixed in value: it is understandable that PMS members considered them as analogous to deposits in a building society.

    Slugger O'Toole Mick Fealty 2010

  • The essential, economic point is that some or all of the dollars accumulated in, e.g., passbook savings accounts are effectively withdrawable on demand by depositors in the form of spendable cash.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • We note that PMS shares were withdrawable on demand, and fixed in value: it is understandable that PMS members considered them as analogous to deposits in a building society.

    Slugger O'Toole Mark McGregor 2010

  • We note that PMS shares were withdrawable on demand, and fixed in value: it is understandable that PMS members considered them as analogous to deposits in a building society.

    Slugger O'Toole Pete Baker 2010

  • We note that PMS shares were withdrawable on demand, and fixed in value: it is understandable that PMS members considered them as analogous to deposits in a building society.

    Slugger O'Toole Paschal Donohoe 2010

  • We note that PMS shares were withdrawable on demand, and fixed in value: it is understandable that PMS members considered them as analogous to deposits in a building society.

    Slugger O'Toole Mick Fealty 2010

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