The word 'perishable' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something (usually food) that spoils quickly and is easily damaged. For example, "It is important to take extra care when transporting perishable goods such as dairy products."
Ps.-Simplicius (= ?Priscian) takes a similar view, but in Ps.-Philoponus' (= ?Stephanus') commentary, the scheme is altered so as to allow immortality even to the two perishable kinds of soul ("for they perish not in their capacity of soul but in their capacity of being in a body").
Airline seats are more perishable than strawberries at Wimbledon, and a pilots' strike can shove an airline into bankruptcy in six weeks.There is thus an urgent need to reform labour negotiations.
It had a cosy deal with the union, exempting perishable products from strikes.
Garments are increasingly seen as a "perishable good", she says, which must be brought to market as quickly as possible.
A supermarket, for instance, needs regular supplies of perishable products such as bread, eggs and milk, although customers coming in to buy them will also occasionally buy slower-moving items such as shoe polish or light bulbs.
The route is Russia's shortest one to the West, and so is favoured by people trading in expensive and perishable goods.
Faced with a glut of cheese, European producers responded by turning milk not into cheddar or brie, but into less perishable skimmed-milk powder, prompting its wholesale price to drop by a third.
They remembered where they had stored food and what kind of food it was, and would even recover the most perishable items first.Now researchers have shown for the first time that an animal other than a human can remember the social context of a past event, and use this knowledge to adjust its behaviour and plan for the future.
As in the euro zone, where consumer prices fell for the first time ever in the 12 months to June, and Japan, where inflation excluding perishable food was -1.1% in May, inflation in America is now negative because of a drop in fuel prices last year.
By incorporating NFC, smart labels will be able to communicate wirelessly.Besides conveying product codes, the applications which the company already has in mind include recording storage times and temperatures for perishable goods like food and pharmaceuticals.
Since fish are perishable, any that cannot be sold will have to be dumped into the sea.This, in a nutshell, was the situation facing Kerala's fishermen until 1997.
