Thursday, July 24, 2008

Able

  • have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"
  • having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity; "able to learn"; "human beings are able to walk on two feet"; "Superman is able to leap tall buildings"
  • having a strong healthy body; "an able seaman"; "every able-bodied young man served in the army"
  • In grammar, a suffix or ending is an affix which is placed at the end of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.
  • (obsolete) To make capable; to enable; to strengthen; (obsolete) To vouch for; Healthy; Not prevented from; permitted to; having the power or capacity to; Skillful; Legally qualified or competent
  • This term is usually linked with “ready” and “willing.” “The buyer is ready, willing and able.” It refers to the buyer’s financial capability to close the transaction.

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