viably

viable | American Dictionary

viable
adjective
us/ˈvɑɪ·ə·bəl/
able to exist, perform as intended, or succeed:
The company had to seek other ways to remain viable.
He would be a viable candidate for any office he wanted to run for.

viability

noun[ U ]us/ˌvɑɪ·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
She’s going to have to cut costs to maintain the viability of her business.

viable | Business English

viable
adjective
uk /ˈvaɪəbl/us
able to be done or likely to succeed:
commercially/economically/financially viableRising oil prices have made alternative energy sources more economically viable.
a viable business/company/marketThe fund exists to provide finance to viable businesses that have been rejected by mainstream lenders.
Home-working offers a viable solution to the work/family conflict.
a viable alternative/option/proposition

Examples of viable

viable
Neither is viable without the other and both require careful management to ensure that their viability is perpetuated.
Monetary policy becomes impotent, while the economy's immunity to real shocks is removed, and fiscal policy becomes a viable option for the government.
Today, with cheap and frequent shipping routes, timber has replaced flagstone as the most viable resource on the island.
Others merely hoped for a modern viable form of paternalism.
However, these findings are restricted to a fraction of (known) cultivable and viable bacteria only.
Numerous pathways to anxiety are currently considered viable.
Where given reasonable and economically viable alternatives, smallholders respond.
First, if less environmentally destructive alternative economic activities are commercially viable, why is international funding needed in order to launch a commercial venture?
Five of 13 egg clutches found on the ground were no longer viable, as was 1 of 8 egg clutches found on plant structures.
Ballooning therefore became a more viable option for dispersal.
No differences were seen in the viable counts, which remained similar in numbers for both aerobic and anaerobic incubation.
Under his view, convergence without attrition, (1a), occurs where both languages that a bilingual acquires are healthy and viable.
Any viable modern position, it seems, must try to preserve the important values contained in each of these two extremes, while avoiding their defects.
Thus, cells that were counted 3 h after plating were still viable.
Stimulation and response recording were then carried out while the cell was viable.
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