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practicable

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1. practicable - Adjective

2. practicable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.

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What is right and what is practicable are two different things. James Buchanan

For not all things are practicable on identical principles. Vitruvius

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future. B. H. Liddell Hart

The ideology of Islam is as practicable or as impracticable as we Muslims choose to make it. Muhammad Asad

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Victor Hugo

For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest. John Stuart Mill

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