serviceable
IPA: sˈɝvʌsʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Easy to service.
- Repairable instead of disposable.
- In condition for use.
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Examples of "serviceable" in Sentences
- "No, they can hardly be called serviceable," the master agreed.
- Under current armor, could the APC still be serviceable, that is protect our troops in Iraq?
- "A musket, lad, and fifty-and-five others in the corner yonder and all serviceable, which is well."
- Deborah Kovacs tells a fast-paced story from Catie’s point of view in serviceable prose with some weak spots.
- The Service stretcher, while soundly built and serviceable, is for this very reason a somewhat cumbrous load even when empty.
- That these tasty morsels come wrapped in serviceable crime plots involving tough guys, gutsy gals, and snappy patter makes the pleasure of devouring them all the sweeter.
- After all, if "serviceable" vehicles today are decommissioned for lack of parts due to the cash for clunkers program, isn't that covert stimulus, even if it comes at the expense of used-parts salvagers?
- Endgame's fundamental weakness, though, is its script, which could charitably be called serviceable, and which might more accurately be said to take fascinating, complex characters and situations and reduce them to plywood cut-outs.
- Sonnino had pointed out that the Navy and the whole country expected of him that he would alter Italy's unfavourable position on the Adriatic, where from Venice to Taranto she had not one serviceable harbour, that is to say serviceable war-harbour.
- By real politeness I mean softness of temper, and a sincere inclination to oblige and be serviceable, which is very conspicuous in this nation, not only among the high, but low; in so much that the porters and coachmen here are civil, and that, not only to gentlemen, but likewise among themselves. '
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