repairable

English

Etymology

repair +‎ -able

Adjective

repairable (comparative more repairable, superlative most repairable)

Able to be repaired.
Synonyms: reparable, fixable, mendable, rectifiable

Luckily, the damage from the accident was repairable.
- 1961 November, “Editorial: Inter-Regional diesel locomotive operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 641:
  Even though W.R. locomotives would always be maintained in W.R. territory, "foreign" depots must be capable of attending to any repairable defects that might occur while the Western units are "abroad"; [...].

Derived terms

repairability

Translations

able to be repaired — see reparable

References

“repairable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.