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ALIENABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alienable mean?
• ALIENABLE (adjective)
The adjective ALIENABLE has 1 sense:
1. transferable to another owner
Familiarity information: ALIENABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transferable to another owner
Similar:
appropriable (that can be appropriated)
assignable; conveyable; negotiable; transferable; transferrable (legally transferable to the ownership of another)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Antonym:
inalienable (incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another)
Derivation:
alienate (transfer property or ownership)
Context examples
There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of; but had every acre been alienable, it would have made no difference.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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