puttable

puttable

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
English put
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English puttable

    From put + -able.

    Adjective

    puttable (not comparable)

    1. (finance) Having the right to be sold at a predetermined price.
      Coordinate term: callable
    2. Able to be put or placed somewhere.
      • quoted in 2024, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill
        Syl's description of the various sensations of the first few days of matrimony are very instructive also amusing but scarcely puttable on paper […]

    Noun

    puttable (plural puttables)

    1. (finance) A puttable bond.
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