practicable
IPA: prˈæktʌkʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
- Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
- Available for use; accessible or employable.
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Examples of "practicable" in Sentences
- It is the best practicable solution.
- It is on the level of practicable fact.
- Order and privilege are condemned; total democracy, as direct as practicable, is the professed radical ideal.
- Atlantic unity, with bonds as loose as we have them, as tight as may be practicable, is a safer bet than European union.
- In the case of the King, the only amends practicable is the restoration of the Ministers possessing the confidence of the country.
- We might at least remember that what we call practicable justice has never yet attained the gracious results of Christ's romantic justice.
- It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness.
- It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with blood guiltiness.
- When a government takes control of a failing firm and injects capital but with the plan to divest as soon as practicable, that is a receivership/conservatorship, not socialism. abb1 says:
- This route was described as practicable for camels, and ran through lands belonging to tribes whose headmen were with me, a fact which should, I thought, ensure our being free from attack.