repairable
adjEtymology From repair + -able.
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Able to be repaired.
- Luckily, the damage from the accident was repairable.
- 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"; [...].1961 November, “Editorial: Inter-Regional diesel locomotive operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 641:
- Derived terms
- irrepairable, nonrepairable, repairability, repairableness, unrepairable