Spendable

a. Also 6 -abyll. [f. SPEND v.¹ + -ABLE. Cf. SPENDIBLE a.]

  † 1.  That may be expended, consumed, or used up for ordinary purposes. Of paper: Suitable for wrapping things in, or similar uses, in contrast to writing-paper. Obs.

a. 1500.  MS. Sloane 4. 81. Take spendabyll pauper and clene flesshe of þe hyppys of a catt.

1502.  Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 74. Paper scribabil the bale, vi. d’. Paper spendable the reme, q’.

1527.  MS. Acc. R. Gibson (P. R. O.), Item … for rebyn poyntis for the kynge and the lordes, iij dosyn and a groose of spendabyll poyntis.

  2.  That which can be spent for current needs.

1886.  J. Caird, in Times, 29 March, 8/3. The enormous loss of spendable income thereby occasioned to the landlords.

1893.  Times, 8 Aug., 10/1. The loss of spendable income by farmers owing to crop failures and low prices.