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perishable - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective noun plural
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun perishes or is short-lived .noun in the plural food that does not keep for long.adjective perish , especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun adjective
Etymologies
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perish + -able
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Instead, they will continue to collect what they call perishable evidence -- parts and pieces that will lose their meaning once the plane is moved.
CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2008 2008
Travel tickets are what I call perishable goods: If a company doesn't sell seats, then they lose them.
Yale Entrepreneurs' Economic Analysis: Rah Rah Rah! 2001
Prices of private-label perishable foods are rising even faster, up 12% last year versus an 8% jump for national brands.
Store Brands Step Up Their Game, and Prices Hannah Karp 2012
Also need non-perishable food and long-term perishable food items, personal hygiene items, medicine chest items, toilet paper and cleaning items.
Evansville Courier & Press Stories 2010
Because it is 'perishable ' - generally reaching peak maturity after 25 years before declining
This is Money | Home 2010
"The law of limitation as to real property," London, 1869), and their muniments of title perishable (Angell, op. cit.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
This form of advertising is what I like to call perishable advertising.
Web Advertising and Website Marketing - By Rob Scribner 2010
Shrimp is highly perishable , which is why most shrimp is flash-frozen and held in speculation to be released as needed, he said.
JSOnline.com 2010
The sauce / soup packet is quite impressive in it's heft and the fact that it's sludge-like and most-likely perishable , which is why the product is sold frozen.
Guilty Carnivore 2009
Information may or may not be technically "perishable " but there are limits on how long it has much in the way of utility/value/interest/pertinence.
Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan 2010
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