employable

English

Etymology

From employ +‎ -able.

Adjective

employable (comparative more employable, superlative most employable)

1. (especially of a person) Able to be employed.
   • 2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 166:

     ‘We can give you the skills you’re missing to make you highly employable,’ Julian smiled.

Antonyms

• unemployable

Derived terms

• employability

Translations

able to be employed

• French: employable (fr)
• German: erwerbsfähig (de), arbeitsfähig (de)
• Irish: infhostaithe
• Italian: assumibile (it)
• Manx: yn-ymmydey, yn-failley
• Swedish: anställningsbar (sv)

Noun

employable (plural employables)

1. A person who is fit for employment.

Translations

person who is fit for employment

• German: Erwerbsfähiger m, Erwerbsfähige f

French

Adjective

employable (plural employables)

1. usable
2. employable

Related terms

• employer

Further reading

• “employable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.