Definition of "saleableness"

With the extension of traffic in space and with the expansion over ever longer intervals of time of prevision for satisfying material needs, each individual would learn, from his own economic interests, to take good heed that he bartered his less saleable goods for those special commodities which displayed, beside the attraction of being highly saleable in the particular locality, a wide range of saleableness both in time and place.

1892 June, Karl Menger [i.e., Carl Menger], “On the Origin of Money”, in Caroline A. Foley, transl., edited by F[rancis] Y[sidro] Edgeworth, The Economic Journal: The Journal of the British Economic Association, volume II, number 6, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., section VI (On the Genesis of Media of Exchange), page 248