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# purchasable

«purchasable» in Mova's school dictionary: **purchasable online** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (purchasable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Able to be bought: Tickets are purchasable online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#m1)

2) Available for sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word for notices, games and shops: «purchasable items», «extra lives purchasable in the app» — a warning that games may ask for money. In maths problems it marks what can be bought with a set amount. Everyday speech says «you can buy it» or «for sale».

### examples

- Tickets are purchasable at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x1)
- Extra coins are purchasable in the game — ask a grown-up first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x2)
- Not every item in the museum shop is purchasable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x3)
- With $10, which of these items are purchasable? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x4)
- Lunch is purchasable from the canteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x5)
- Seeds are purchasable at the garden centre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/#x6)

### note

From «purchase» (buy) + «-able»; the e is dropped. Formal; everyday: «for sale», «available». Opposite: unpurchasable (rare).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purchasable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purchasable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.