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Definition of Sizeable

1. Adjective. Fairly large. "Of ample proportions"

2. Adjective. Large in amount or extent or degree. "A sizable fortune"

Definition of Sizeable

1. Adjective. (commonwealth) Fairly large. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sizeable

1. sizable [adj] : SIZEABLY [adv] - See also: sizable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizeable

sizably sizar sizars sizarship sizarships size size-zero size constancy size of it size perception

size stick size up size zero sizeable (current term) sizeableness sizeably sized sizeism sizeisms sizeist

sizeists sizel sizeless sizels sizer sizers sizes sizewise

Literary usage of Sizeable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ireland by OECD Staff, OECD (2006)
"PPPs are set to make a sizeable share of public investment In billion euros 2006 07 08 09 I. Allocation, not actual PPPs. Source: Department of Finance, ..."

2. Force Structure: Streamlining Plans Could Enable Navy to Reduce Personnel by Carol R. Schuster (1998)
"... Appropriations Fund a sizeable Portion of Navy Infrastructure Activities 85 percent of the Navy's total infrastructure force in fiscal year. ..."

3. Climate Change: Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming by John B. Stephenson (2007)
"... Weather- Related Losses Have Been sizeable, and Federal Insurers' Exposure Has Grown Significantly Claims Paid on Weather- Related Losses Totaled More ..."

4. The U. S. Sugar Program: Its Impact on Sweetener Users and Producers and How (1994)
"... Chapters Sugar Program Provides Concentrated Benefits to Few Sweetener Producers sizeable Benefits Go to Few Sugar Farms By keeping the domestic price ..."

5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"One that weighs 200 Ibs. will produce a side weighing 60 Ibs. Between these limits is included the weights that sell on the English market as "sizeable ..."

6. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State), Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"AND every Foot Soldier or Trooper ehall at hia Habitation or place of abode, have one pound of good Gunpowder, and three pounds of sizeable Bullets, ..."

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