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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]payably (comparative more payably, superlative most payably)
- Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.
- 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:
- In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]