Both Uses of
practicable
in
1984 by Orwell
- Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out.†
p. 152..1 *
- To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practicable solution.†
p. 190..5
Definition:
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(practicable) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose