retrievable

From retrieve + -able.

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retrievable (comparative more retrievable, superlative most retrievable)

1. Capable of being retrieved or recovered.

   Mislaid items are retrievable from the Lost Property office.

2. From which recovery is possible.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     His mistakes are fatal; those of the Law are only temporary and retrievable.

• retrievability
• retrievableness
• retrievably

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “retrievable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “retrievable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.