Meaning & use
investable or investible
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Meanings
adjectivenot comparable
Worth putting money into because it is likely to produce a profit.
Grammar: Used before a noun (an investable asset) or after a linking verb (the project is investable).
Patterns
- investable asset
- investable funds
- be investable
The fund only buys investable assets that meet strict quality rules.
After the audit, the company looked genuinely investable to foreign buyers.
Small startups often struggle to appear investable to cautious lenders.
adjectivenot comparablefinance
Suitable or available to be invested, as of money or capital.
Grammar: Describes money that can be put to work; both spellings are used, with -able more common in American writing.
Patterns
- investable capital
- investable income
- investable surplus
After paying taxes, they had little investable income left each month.
The bank holds a large pool of investable capital for its clients.
Pension funds need enough investable money to cover future payments.
Common combinations
- investable assets
- Their investable assets grew steadily over the decade.
- investable capital
- The firm raised investable capital from three pension funds.
- investable funds
- Investable funds are sitting idle while rates stay low.
- highly investable
- The sector is considered highly investable right now.
- investable grade
- Only bonds of investable grade were added to the portfolio.
Synonyms and how they differ
- bankable
- Suggests a project is safe enough to attract financing; it stresses reliability more than profit potential.
- viable
- Means able to work or survive; it says nothing about whether money will be put in.
- profitable
- Focuses on actually making money, while investable only means money could reasonably be put in.
Opposites
Word family
- invest verb
- To put money into something to earn a return.
- investment noun
- Money put into something, or the act of putting it in.
- investor noun
- A person or organization that puts money in.
- investible adjective
- The alternative spelling of the same word.
Commonly confused: investable or investible or investigable? investable or investible or inevitable?
investable or investible vs investigable
Sounds similar but means able to be investigated, not able to be invested in.
investable or investible vs inevitable
A different word meaning certain to happen; do not mix it up with investable.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'investable' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Investable' is an adjective meaning worth putting money into, so it fits before 'because demand keeps rising'. Option A confuses it with 'investigable', option C uses an adjective where a verb ('invested') is needed, and option D uses an adjective where a noun ('investment') is needed.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “investable or investible”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.