tractable
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adj.
1. Easily managed or controlled; governable.
2. Easily handled or worked; malleable.
[Latin tractbilis, from tractre, to manage, frequentative of trahere, to draw.]
tracta·bili·ty, tracta·ble·ness n.
tracta·bly adv.
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