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> I am trying to explain a field in a form (screen) and the
> developer has supplied this description:
>
> The invoiceable volume determined for this transaction.
>
> Invoiceable does not seem right. I don't think there is such
> a word, so I am going to reword the sentence. Is invoicable a word?
IMHO, no, it's not. Aside from how ugly it _sounds_, consider this:
Google on "invoiceable" : ~346 results.
Google on "incentivize" : ~7500 results.
It's not even as popular as incentivize, which I would _never_ use, so in
this writer's opinon, don't use a word like invoiceable... that's even less
widely used.
> I am going to reword the sentence as:
>
> The volume amount to be invoiced for this transaction.
>
> Is this better?
Yes, much better - as long as you don't call it a complete sentence. :)
Chris Grant
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